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G2909Greek

κρείττων

Definition and meaning

kreitton (kreit'-town) adj. 1. stronger 2. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler [comparative of a derivative of G2904] KJV: best, better Root(s): G2904

Tagged KJV passages

17 matching verses - 18.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Matched English: better
1 Corinthians 11:17

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

Matched English: better
1 Corinthians 12:31

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Matched English: best
Hebrews 1:4

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Matched English: than
Hebrews 6:9

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Matched English: things
Hebrews 7:7

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

Matched English: better
Hebrews 7:19

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

Matched English: better
Hebrews 7:22

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

Matched English: better
Hebrews 8:6

But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

Matched English: better, better
Hebrews 9:23

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Matched English: better
Hebrews 10:34

For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Matched English: better
Hebrews 11:16

But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Matched English: better
Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

Matched English: better
Hebrews 11:40

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Matched English: better
Hebrews 12:24

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Matched English: things
1 Peter 3:17

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Matched English: better
2 Peter 2:21

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Matched English: better