Strong's G2909 κρείττων (kreitton)

And Saul said, I have brought them out of Amalek, that which the people preserved, even the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, that it might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, and the rest have I utterly destroyed.

And he himself went a day’s journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.

it: and let not the queen come in to him anymore; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.

The lines have fallen to me in the best places, Yea, I have a most excellent heritage.

Thou hast prepared a table before me in presence of them that afflict me: Thou hast thoroughly anointed my head with oil; And thy cup cheers me like the best wine.

For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, Than dwell in the tents of sinners.

For it is better to traffic for her, Than for treasures of gold and silver.

For wisdom is better than precious stones; And no valuable substance is of equal worth with it.

It is better to have my fruit than to have gold and precious stones; And my produce is better than choice silver.

He that has found favor with the Lord is made better; But a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.

Better is a man in dishonor serving himself, Than one honoring himself and wanting bread.

Than he that promises and leads another to hope: For a good desire is a tree of life.

Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, Than great treasures without the fear of the Lord.

Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, Than a feast of calves, with enmity.

Better is a meek-spirited man with lowliness, Than one who divides spoils with the proud.

A man slow to anger is better than a strong man; And he that governs his temper better than he that takes a city.

Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, Than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.

Mercy is a fruit to a man: And a poor man is better than a rich liar.

A wise man is better than a strong man; And a man who has prudence than a large estate.

I will give to them in my house and within my walls an honorable place, better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.

Be thou in the depth of the pit: to whom art thou superior? yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.

O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by thence to Hamath Rabba; and thence descend to Gath of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

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.

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 than these.

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 substance.

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.

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

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 them.

Now therefore be it far from me, that I should spare mine own life in any time of trouble: for I am no better than my brethren.

it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honor the place, and magnify the temple with their best gifts;

for he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat.

And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war.

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: For the memorial thereof is immortal: Because it is known with God, and with men.

For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands: For he himself is better than the things which he worshipeth: Whereas he lived once, but they never.

Better is he that laboreth, and aboundeth in all things, Than he that boasteth himself, and wanteth bread.

Trust not thou in their life, Neither respect their multitude: For one that is just is better than a thousand; And better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.

Shall not the dew assuage the heat? So is a word better than a gift.

He that hath small understanding, and feareth God, Is better than one that hath much wisdom, and transgresseth the law of the most High.

Better is he that hideth his folly Than a man that hideth his wisdom.

And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, And that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, Than delicate fare in another man’s house.

Than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

Or continual sickness.

Reward them that wait for thee, And let thy prophets be found faithful.

A man that hideth his foolishness is better Than a man that hideth his wisdom.

Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, A woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

neither can they show signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.