| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Heb 11:35 | King James | Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: |
| Strong Concordance | Women [1135] received [2983] their [846] dead [3498] raised to life again [1537] [386]: and [1161] others [243] were tortured [5178], not [3756] accepting [4327] deliverance [629]; that [2443] they might obtain [5177] a better [2909] resurrection [386]: |
| Greek For 2909 | |
| Word | kreitton |
| Pronunciation | krite'-tohn |
| Definition |
comparative of a derivative of 2904; stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler: best, better. |
| Root(s) | 2904 |
| Verse Occurrences | 17 |
| Verse | Other Content | Text |
| 1Co 7:9 | C T R K | But if they cannot contain, let them marry : for it is better [2909] to marry than to burn. |
| 1Co 11:17 | C T R K | Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better [2909], but for the worse. |
| 1Co 12:31 | C D T R K | But covet earnestly the best [2909] gifts : and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way. |
| Heb 1:4 | C D T R K | Being made so much better than [2909] the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. |
| Heb 6:9 | C D T R K | But, beloved, we are persuaded better things [2909] of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. |
| Heb 7:7 | C D T R K | And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better [2909]. |
| Heb 7:19 | C D T R K | For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better [2909] hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. |
| Heb 7:22 | C D T R K | By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better [2909] testament. |
| Heb 8:6 | C D T R K | But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better [2909] covenant, which was established upon better [2909] promises. |
| Heb 9:23 | C T R K | It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better [2909] sacrifices than these. |
| Heb 10:34 | C D T R K | 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 [2909] and an enduring substance. |
| Heb 11:16 | C D T R K | But now they desire a better [2909] country, that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God : for he hath prepared for them a city. |
| Heb 11:35 | C D T R K | Women received their dead raised to life again : and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better [2909] resurrection : |
| Heb 11:40 | C D T R K | God having provided some better [2909] thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. |
| Heb 12:24 | C D T R K | And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things [2909] than that of Abel. |
| 1Pe 3:17 | C D T R K | For it is better [2909], if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. |
| 2Pe 2:21 | C D T R K | For it had been better [2909] 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. |