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Lexicon :: Strong's G2909 - kreittōn

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κρείττων
Transliteration
kreittōn (Key)
Pronunciation
krite'-tohn
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Comparative of a derivative of κράτος (G2904)
Strong’s Definitions

κρείττων kreíttōn, krite'-tohn; comparative of a derivative of G2904; stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler:—best, better.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G2909 in the following manner: better (17x), best (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's G2909 in the following manner: better (17x), best (1x).

  1. more useful, more serviceable, more advantageous

  2. more excellent

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κρείττων kreíttōn, krite'-tohn; comparative of a derivative of G2904; stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler:—best, better.
STRONGS G2909:
κρείττων and (1 Corinthians 7:38; Philippians 1:23; in other places the reading varies between the two forms, especially in 1 Corinthians 7:9 (here T Tr WH L text κρείττων); 1 Corinthians 11:17; Hebrews 6:9 (here and in the preceding passage L T Tr WH κρείσσων; see WH's Appendix, p. 148f; cf. Sigma) κρείσσων, κρεισσονος, neuter κρεισσονου (comparitive of κρατύς, see κράτιστος, cf. Kühner, i., p. 436; (Buttmann, 27 (24))) (from Homer down), better; i. e.
a. more useful, more serviceable: 1 Corinthians 11:17; 1 Corinthians 12:31 R G; Hebrews 11:40; Hebrews 12:24; with πολλῷ μᾶλλον, added, Philippians 1:23 (cf. μᾶλλον, 1 b.); κρεῖσσον (adverb) ποιεῖν, 1 Corinthians 7:38; κρεῖττον ἐστιν, it is more advantageous, followed by an infinitive, 1 Corinthians 7:9; 2 Peter 2:21 (cf. Buttmann, 217 (188); Winers Grammar, § 41 a. 2 a).
b. more excellent: Hebrews 1:4; Hebrews 6:9; Hebrews 7:7, 19, 22; Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 9:23; Hebrews 10:34; Hebrews 11:16, 35; κρεῖττον, followed by an infinitive, 1 Peter 3:17.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Corinthians
7:9; 7:9; 7:38; 7:38; 11:17; 11:17; 12:31
Philippians
1:23; 1:23
Hebrews
1:4; 6:9; 6:9; 7:7; 7:19; 7:22; 8:6; 9:23; 10:34; 11:16; 11:35; 11:40; 12:24
1 Peter
3:17
2 Peter
2:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2909 matches the Greek κρείττων (kreittōn),
which occurs 19 times in 18 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:9 - But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:38 - So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:17 - But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:23 - But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:4 - having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 6:9 - But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:7 - But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:19 - (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:22 - by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:6 - But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:23 - It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:34 - For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:16 - But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:35 - Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:40 - God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:24 - and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:17 - For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:21 - For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
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