7 occurrences in 13 translations

'Best' in the Bible

"What have I accomplished compared to you?" he responded. "Isn't what's left from Ephraim's harvest better than the best vintage of Abiezer?

Verse ConceptsGleaningGrapesMinoritiesVintageRelative Greatness

and Samson's wife went to the best man at his wedding.

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

Her father said, "Because I honestly thought that you hated her deeply, I gave her in marriage to your best man. Isn't her younger sister better than she? Please then, let her be yours instead."

Verse ConceptsHating IndividualsTransferring Wives

Then the Philistines demanded, "Who did this?" Someone said, "Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because his father-in-law took Samson's wife and gave her to the best man at Samson's wedding." In retaliation, the Philistines came up and burned her and her father to death.

Verse ConceptsSons In LawBurning PeopleWho Is The Doer?Transferring Wives

And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

As 10,000 of Israel's best soldiers came to fight Gibeah, the battle became fierce, but the army of Benjamin didn't know that disaster was close at hand.

Verse ConceptsTens Of Thousands

So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

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Bible Theasaurus

Adept (3 instances)
Beneficial (12 instances)
Better (302 instances)
Bully (2 instances)
Capital (60 instances)
Choice (172 instances)
Crack (10 instances)
Dependable (5 instances)
Effective (13 instances)
Expert (90 instances)
Exquisite (2 instances)
Honest (52 instances)
Honorable (62 instances)
Outdo (2 instances)
Practiced (94 instances)
Proficient (4 instances)
Respectable (2 instances)
Salutary (1 instance)
Scoop (6 instances)
Secure (159 instances)
Serious (65 instances)
Skilful (40 instances)
Skillful (88 instances)
Trump (2 instances)
Upright (440 instances)

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