Strong's #2909: kreitton (pronounced krite'-tohn)

comparative of a derivative of 2904; stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler:--best, better.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kreittōn

1) more useful, more serviceable, more advantageous

2) more excellent

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: comparative of a derivative of G2904

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

 

1 Corinthians 7:9: "they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."
1 Corinthians 11:17: "not for the better, but for the worse."
1 Corinthians 12:31: "But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show"
Philippians 1:23: "with Christ; which is far better:"
Hebrews 1:4: "Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent"
Hebrews 6:9: "But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany"
Hebrews 7:7: "is blessed of the better."
Hebrews 7:19: "made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which"
Hebrews 7:22: "was Jesus made a surety of a better testament."
Hebrews 8:6: "also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon"
Hebrews 8:6: "which was established upon better promises."
Hebrews 9:23: "the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these."
Hebrews 10:34: "in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring"
Hebrews 11:16: "But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God"
Hebrews 11:35: "accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:"
Hebrews 11:40: "God having provided some better thing for us, that they without"
Hebrews 12:24: "to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."
1 Peter 3:17: "For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer"
2 Peter 2:21: "For it had been better for them not to have known the way"