κρείσσων

Where this word appears

A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where κρείσσων appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 38 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Exodus 14:12 κρείσσων Is not this the word which we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? for it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.
• Judges 8:2 κρείσσων And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison of you? is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
• 1 Samuel 15:15 κρείσσων And Saul said, I have brought them out of Amalec, that which the people preserved, even the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, that it might be sacrificed to the Lord your God, and the rest have I utterly destroyed.
• 1 Kings 19:4 κρείσσων 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 you, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.
• Esther 1:19 κρείσσων If then it seem good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: and let not the queen come in to him any more; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.
• Psalms 15:6 κρείσσων The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yes, I have a most excellent heritage.
• Proverbs 3:14 κρείσσων For it is better to traffic for her, than for treasures of gold and silver.
• Isaiah 56:5 κρείσσων 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.
• Ezekiel 32:21 κρείσσων Be you in the depth of the pit: to whom are you superior? yes, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.
• Daniel 1:15 κρείσσων And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh, than the children that fed at the king's table.
• Amos 6:2 κρείσσων O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by thence to Ematrabba; and thence descend to Geth of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.