κρείττων
more excellent
‘more excellent’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Genitive-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 5 times (38%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 2 times (15%)
- Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine 2 times (15%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 2 times (15%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2909 appears — 12 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Hebrews 10 verses
- Hebrews 1:4 κρείττων adj nom sg masc having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
- Hebrews 7:7 κρείττονος adj gen sg masc But without any dispute the less is blessed by the better.
- Hebrews 7:19 κρείττονος adj gen sg fem (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
- Hebrews 7:22 κρείττονος adj gen sg fem By so much has Jesus become the collateral of a better covenant.
- Hebrews 8:6 κρείττονός κρείττοσιν adj gen sg fem adj dat pl fem But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
- Hebrews 9:23 κρείττοσιν adj dat pl fem It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Hebrews 11:16 κρείττονος adj gen sg fem But now they desire a better country, 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 κρείττονος adj gen sg fem Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
- Hebrews 11:40 κρεῖττόν adj acc sg neut God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
- Hebrews 12:24 κρεῖττον adj acc sg neut to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
1 Peter 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek adjective κρειττων centers on the idea of “more excellent.” Hebrews dominates its distribution — 10 of 12 verses. Spanning 12 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at 1 Corinthians 7:9, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2909 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 10 verses 83%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 8%
- 1 Peter 1 verse 8%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 10 verses · 83%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Better 13×, Better things 2×
- American Standard Version: Better 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Better 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Better 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2909 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2909 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2909 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2909 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- more useful, more serviceable, more advantageous
- more excellent
Word origin
Derived from κρατος (krátos) (G2904) — power.
Comparative of a derivative of G2904 ; stronger that is (figuratively) better that is nobler : - best better.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2909 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κρείττονος kreíttonos | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 7:19 | 5 |
| κρεῖττον kreîtton | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 7:9 | 3 |
| κρείττοσιν kreíttosin | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Hebrews 8:6 | 2 |
| κρείττονός kreíttonós | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 8:6 | 1 |
| κρείττων kreíttōn | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 1:4 | 1 |
| κρεῖττόν kreîttón | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Hebrews 11:40 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2909, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- καρτερεω karteréō G2594 to be steadfast
- κραταιος krataiós G2900 mighty
- κρατεω kratéō G2902 to have power
- κρατιστος krátistos G2903 mightiest
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
