ΚΡΕΙΤΤΩ, κρειττω
KREITTŌ, kreittō
Sounds Like: KRAY-toh
Translations: better, superior, more excellent, stronger, more powerful
From the root: ΚΡΕΙΤΤΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is a comparative adjective meaning 'better' or 'superior'. It is used to indicate that one thing or person is of higher quality, greater strength, or more advantageous than another. It often appears with a genitive case or the particle 'ἢ' (ē) meaning 'than' to make a comparison.
Inflection: Nominative or Accusative, Singular, Neuter; or Nominative, Singular, Masculine or Feminine (contracted form of ΚΡΕΙΤΤΩΝ)
Strong’s number: G2909 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:80
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 29:273
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΡΕΙΤΤΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝ — better, superior, more excellent
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝ' — better, more excellent, superior, a better thing
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΑ — better, superior, more excellent, stronger, more advantageous
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΑΣ — better, stronger, more excellent, superior
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΕΣ — better, superior, better ones, superior ones
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΙ — better, stronger, more excellent, superior
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΟΣ — of better, of superior, of more excellent, of greater
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΟΣΙΝ — better, stronger, more excellent, superior
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΩΝ — of better, of superior, of stronger, of more excellent
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΝΩΣ — better, more excellently, more powerfully, more advantageously
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΣΙ — better, superior, stronger, more excellent, more profitable
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΣΙΝ — better, superior, more excellent
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΟΥΣ — better, superior, more excellent, better ones, superior ones
- ΚΡΕΙΤΤΩΝ — better, superior, stronger, more excellent
- ΚΡΙΤʼΤΟΝ — better, more excellent, superior
- ΚΡΙΤΤΟΝ — better, superior, more excellent
- ΚΡΙΤΤΟΝΙ — (to) better, (to) stronger, (to) superior, (to) more excellent
- ΚΡΙΤΤΟΝΟΣ — of better, of stronger, of more excellent, of superior
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