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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 17 times in 16 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:17 - But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:31 - But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:4 - taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 6:9 - But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:7 - But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:19 - (for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:22 - by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:6 - But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:23

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:34 - For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:35

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:40 - God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:24 - and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than 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 will it, to suffer as well-doers than as evildoers;

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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 having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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