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
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Yea better is he then both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seene the euill worke that is done vnder the Sunne.
1611 marginal noteIob 3.11, 16,21.
better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Better is an handfull with quietnesse, then both the hands full with trauell and vexation of spirit.
1611 marginal noteProu. 15.16. and 16.18.
¶ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
¶ Two are better then one; because they haue a good reward for their labour.
¶ better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
¶ Better is a poore and a wise child, then an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished.
1611 marginal noteHeb. who knoweth not to be admonished.
better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vowe and not pay.
¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and liue many yeeres, so that the dayes of his yeeres bee many: and his soule be not filled with good, and also that he haue no buriall, I say, that an vntimely birth is better then he.
¶ better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
¶ Better is the sight of the eyes, then the wandering of the desire: this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit.
1611 marginal noteHeb. then the walking of the soule.
¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanitie, what is man the better?
A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
¶ A Good name is better then precious ointment: and the day of death, then the day of ones birth.
1611 marginal noteProu.23.1 and 15.30.
¶ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
¶ It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the liuing will lay it to his heart.
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Historical English dictionary sources
With more affection; in a higher degree. More correctly, or fully. With superior excellence.
