κρείσσων kreissōn

Greek word for “greater” · Strong’s G2908 · used 19 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

κρείσσων; (Epic and old Att..) and κρείττων (later Att..), prop.

How it is translated

Glosses given for kreissōn in context, with how often each is used:

• better 15
• superior 2
• better one 1
• better thing 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Hebrews 7 (3), Hebrews 11 (3), 1 Corinthians 7 (2), 1 Corinthians 11 (1), Philippians 1 (1), Hebrews 1 (1), Hebrews 6 (1), Hebrews 8 (1), Hebrews 9 (1), Hebrews 10 (1)

Forms

• κρείττονος 5
• κρεῖττον 4
• κρεῖσσον 3
• κρείττοσιν 2
• κρείττων 1
• κρείσσονα 1
• κρείττονός 1
• κρείττονα 1
• κρεῖττόν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kreissōn more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• διαθήκη diathēkē “covenant” 3
• διάφορος diaphoros “different” 2
• μεσίτης mesitēs “mediator” 2
• τυγχάνω tugchanō “to obtain/happen” 2
• προσδέχομαι prosdechomai “to wait for/welcome” 2
• ἐπουράνιος epouranios “heavenly” 2
• τοσοῦτος tosoutos “so great” 2
• τελειόω teleioō “to perfect” 2
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 3
• χωρίς chōris “without” 2
• ἤ ē “or” 3
• ὅσος hosos “just as/how much” 2

Key verses

The verses using kreissōn that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Philippians 1:23 — For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
• Hebrews 6:9 — But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
• Hebrews 7:19 — For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
• Hebrews 7:22 — By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
• Hebrews 8:6 — But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
• Hebrews 9:23 — It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices…
• Hebrews 10:34 — For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring…
• Hebrews 11:16 — But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
• Hebrews 11:35 — Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
• Hebrews 12:24 — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and 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 for well doing, than for evil doing.
• 2 Peter 2:21 — For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.