Greek Strong's Lexicon

G2909

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: κρείττων

Transliteration: krite'-tohn

Definition: comparative of a derivative of κράτος; stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler

KJV Definition: best, better

Verse usage

  • 1 Korintionan 7:9 NASB
    But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn [with passion].
  • 1 Korintionan 7:38 NASB
    So then both he who gives his own virgin [daughter] in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.
  • 1 Korintionan 11:17 NASB
    But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
  • Filipensenan 1:23 NASB
    But I am hard-pressed from both [directions], having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for [that] is very much better;
  • Hebreonan 1:4 NASB
    having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.
  • Hebreonan 6:9 NASB
    But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.
  • Hebreonan 7:7 NASB
    But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
  • Hebreonan 7:19 NASB
    (for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
  • Hebreonan 7:22 NASB
    so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
  • Hebreonan 8:6 NASB
    But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
  • Hebreonan 9:23 NASB
    Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Hebreonan 10:34 NASB
    For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.
  • Hebreonan 11:16 NASB
    But as it is, they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
  • Hebreonan 11:35 NASB
    Women received [back] their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;
  • Hebreonan 11:40 NASB
    because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.
  • Hebreonan 12:24 NASB
    and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than [the blood] of Abel.
  • 1 Pedro 3:17 NASB
    For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
  • 2 Pedro 2:21 NASB
    For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.