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
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
God hauing prouided some better thing for vs, that they without vs, should not be made perfect.
1611 marginal noteOr, foreseene.
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
And to Iesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
1611 marginal noteOr, Testament.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that yee suffer for well doing, then for euill doing.
For it had been better 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.
For it had bin better for them not to haue knowen the way of righteousnesse, then after they haue knowen it, to turne from the holy commandement deliuered vnto them.
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Historical English dictionary sources
With more affection; in a higher degree. More correctly, or fully. With superior excellence.
