κρεῖσσον kreîsson

Meaning

(as noun) better, i.e. greater advantage

In the King James Version: better

Derivation: neuter of an alternate form of G2909 (κρείττων);

Where it is used

• 1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
• 1 Corinthians 7:38 So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
• 1 Corinthians 11:17 In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
• Philippians 1:23 I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
• Hebrews 1:4 So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.
• Hebrews 6:9 Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case—things that accompany salvation.
• Hebrews 7:7 And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.
• Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
• Hebrews 7:22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
• Hebrews 8:6 Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
• Hebrews 9:23 So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
• Hebrews 10:34 You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.
• Hebrews 11:16 Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
• Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
• Hebrews 11:40 God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
• Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
• 1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
• 2 Peter 2:21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.