Kreíttōn — G2909

Definition

adjective

stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler

1. more useful, more serviceable
2. more excellent

Usually translated as

better, best

Origin

comparative of a derivative of G2904

• krátos (G2904)

Occurrences

Kreíttōn occurs 19 times in 18 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Corinthians (3), Philippians (1), Hebrews (12), 1 Peter (1), 2 Peter (1)

• 1 Corinthians 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better (κρεῖσσον) to marry than to burn.
• 1 Corinthians 11:17 — Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better (κρεῖττον), but for the worse.
• 1 Corinthians 12:31 — But covet earnestly the best (κρείττονα) gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
• Philippians 1:23 — For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better (κρεῖσσον):
• Hebrews 1:4 — Being made so much better (κρείττων) than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
• Hebrews 6:9 — But, beloved, we are persuaded better things (κρείττονα) of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
• Hebrews 7:7 — And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better (κρείττονος).
• Hebrews 7:19 — For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better (κρείττονος) hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
• Hebrews 7:22 — By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better (κρείττονος) testament.
• Hebrews 8:6 — But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better (κρείττονος) covenant, which was established upon better promises.
• 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 (κρείττοσιν) promises.
• 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 (κρείττοσιν) sacrifices than these.
• 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 (κρείττονα) and an enduring substance.
• Hebrews 11:16 — But now they desire a better (κρείττονος) country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
• Hebrews 11:35 — Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better (κρείττονος) resurrection:
• Hebrews 11:40 — God having provided some better thing (κρεῖττον) for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
• Hebrews 12:24 — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things (κρείττονα) than that of Abel.
• 1 Peter 3:17 — For it is better (κρεῖττον), if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
• 2 Peter 2:21 — For it had been better (κρεῖττον) 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.