KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree. Sense 2: To improve or make better.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 29:19
Complete exact-word concordance
No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
No man also hauing drunke olde wine, straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Consider the rauens, for they neither sow nor reape, which neither haue storehouse nor barne, and God feedeth them: How much more are yee better then the foules?
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and he cast into the Sea, then that he should offend one of these little ones.
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Historical English dictionary sources
With more affection; in a higher degree. More correctly, or fully. With superior excellence.
