kreittōn · better

What it means

kreittōn (κρείττων) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “better”.

More useful or more excellent.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Of greater worth or benefit than something it is compared with.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• better ×16
• greater ×1
• superior ×1
• us ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Corinthians×3
• Philippians×1
• Hebrews×13
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1

• 1 Corinthians 7:9

  But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

• 1 Corinthians 7:38

  So then the one who gives in marriage his own virgin does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.

• 1 Corinthians 11:17

  But in giving this instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

• Philippians 1:23

  I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and to be with the Messiah, for that is far, far better;

• Hebrews 1:4

  having become as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

• Hebrews 6:9

  But about you, beloved, we are convinced of better things, and things that belong to salvation, even though we speak this way.

• Hebrews 7:7

  And beyond all dispute, the lesser is blessed by the greater.

• Hebrews 7:19

  (for the law made nothing perfect), and on the other, the introduction of a better hope, through which we come near to God.

• Hebrews 7:22

  to that extent Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

• Hebrews 8:6

  But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

• Hebrews 9:23

  It was necessary, then, for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

• Hebrews 10:34

  For you indeed sympathized with the prisoners, and accepted with joy the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better possession and one that remains.

• Hebrews 11:16

  But as it is, they long for a better one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

• Hebrews 11:35

  Women received their dead by resurrection; but others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, so that they might obtain a better resurrection.

• Hebrews 11:40

  since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect apart from us.

• Hebrews 12:24

  and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel.

• 1 Peter 3:17

  For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

• 2 Peter 2:21

  For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.

And 1 more times.