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Lexicon :: Strong's G2908 - kreisson

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κρεῖσσον
Transliteration
kreisson (Key)
Pronunciation
krice'-son
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
Neuter of an alternate form of κρείττων (G2909)
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Strong’s Definitions

†κρεῖσσον kreîsson, krice'-son; neuter of an alternate form of G2909; (as noun) better, i.e. greater advantage:—better.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2908 in the following manner: better (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2908 in the following manner: better (2x).

  1. better

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†κρεῖσσον kreîsson, krice'-son; neuter of an alternate form of G2909; (as noun) better, i.e. greater advantage:—better.
STRONGS G2908:
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 G2908 matches the Greek κρεῖσσον (kreisson),
which occurs 35 times in 33 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2 - But he answered them, “What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren’t the gleanings of Ephraim’s grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Saul answered, “The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but we totally destroyed the rest.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - “Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:6 - The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 - You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:16 - Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:3 - Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:10 - Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:11 - for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19 - My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:2 - Good people obtain favor from the LORD, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:9 - Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:16 - Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great wealth with turmoil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:17 - Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:19 - Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:32 - Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:1 - Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:22 - What a person desires is unfailing love[fn]; better to be poor than a liar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9 - Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:19 - Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:5 - The wise prevail through great power, and those who have knowledge muster their strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:7 - it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. What you have seen with your eyes

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:5 - Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:6 - Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:1 - Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:5 - to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:2 - Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?
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