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'Better' in the Bible

Then Laban said, "Better [that] I give her to you than I give her to another man. Stay with me."

Good ActivityStaying TemporarilyGiving In Marriage

Isn't this the word we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone [so that] we can serve Egypt!' because serving Egypt is better for us than our dying in the desert."

Dying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return [to] Egypt?"

doubtersFaint HeartednessWhy Does God Do This?

And he said to them, "What I have done now in comparison with you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

GleaningGrapesMinoritiesVintageRelative Greatness

"{Speak to} the lords of Shechem, 'What [is] better for you, that seventy men all from the sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or that one man rules over you?' Remember that I [am] your bone and your flesh."

BodySeventySame Bone And FleshSeventies

So then, [are] you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel, or did he ever make war against them?

And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?"

Spiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

And he said, "You [are] blessed by Yahweh my daughter. You did better [in this] last kindness than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.

KindnessDealing With Young PeoplePoor Or RichYoung MarriageMay God Bless!

He shall be for you a restorer of life and a sustainer in your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who [is] better for you than seven sons, has borne him."

Maturity, PhysicalOld Age, Attainment OfSeven ChildrenDaughters In LawGood PeopleThose Who LovedRenewal

So Elkanah her husband would say to her: "Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And {why are you heartsick}? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

UnhappinessWeepingHusbands Duty To WivesTen PeopleGood PeopleWhy Do You Do This?

Then Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor {who is better than you}.

Predictionssaul

Please, let our lord command your servants [who are] before you! Let them seek a man skilled in playing on the lyre. {When} the evil spirit from God [is] upon you, he can play {on it} and {you will feel better}."

HarpsInstrumentalists

So whenever the [evil] spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the stringed instrument and play it with his hand. Then {it would bring relief} for Saul; {he would feel better} and the evil spirit would depart from him.

HarpsLeisure, And PastimesMedicineMusiciansTemperamentInstrumentalistsPeople RefreshedMental HealthMental IllnessAtmosphereAnxiety And DepressionDepressioninstrumentssaulDemonic Influence

Then David {thought to himself}, "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but [that] I must certainly escape to the land of [the] Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand."

Escaping From PeopleDespair

Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I have sent to you, saying, 'Come here that I may send you to the king to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I [were] still there." ' So then, let me see the face of the king; if there [is] guilt in me, then let him kill me."

People VisitingOthers SummoningApproval To Kill Oneself

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom).

Advice, From GodGod Harmed ThemGod HinderingGod's OrdersMan's Counsel

Then the troops said, "You will not go out, for {if we must flee}, then {they will not care about us}; even if half of us die, {they will not care about us}, but now, you [are] like ten thousand of us. And so then, [it is] better for us that you be in the city to help."

ValuesTens Of ThousandsPeople HelpingHalf Of GroupsGreat IndividualsWorth

The servants of the king also came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'Your God has made the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!' So the king worshiped on the bed.

BowingBowing Before GodThe Kingdom Of Solomon

Yahweh will return his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men, more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, even though my father did not know it; [namely] Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

God Makes Evil ReboundGod Will RequiteIgnorant Of Facts

Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

Disappointments, Examples OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceJourneyUniversality Of DeathLonelinessPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, Doubts AboutSelf PitySittingTreesComplaintsUnwise PrayersDesire For DeathDimensions Of Other ThingsTemporary Stay In The WildernessDeathDepression

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard that it may be mine for a garden of vegetable plants, because it is near, beside my house, and I will give to you a better vineyard in place of it. If it is better in your eyes, I will give you the money of its price."

Garden, NaturalHorticultureCovetousness, Example Of

Are not the Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them that I may be clean?" Then he turned and left in anger.

Rivers And StreamsUnbelief, Examples OfAngry People

He spoke {kindly} to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who [were] with him in Babylon.

KindnessThrone

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful like the unfaithfulness of the house of Ahab, and have also murdered your brothers of the house of your father who [were] better than you,

Spiritual HarlotryMurderImitating Wicked Kings

{If it pleases} the king, let {a royal edict} go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it will not be altered, that Vashti cannot come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to her neighbor who [is] better than she.

Human LawDeposing

For Yahweh it will be better than an ox [or] bull, horned [and] hoofed.

HornsRight Sacrifices

Because better [is] a day in your courtyards than a thousand [elsewhere]. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in [the] tents of wickedness.

DoorkeepersDoorsProperty, HousesTentsEvil AssociationsOne DayPresented At The DoorwayWe Live With GodDaysgaysBeing GayHaving A Good Daywickedness

The law of your mouth [is] better to me than thousands of gold and silver [coins].

GoldMetalsMineralsMouthsRiches, SpiritualTreasureAlternatives To Money

For her income is better than the income of silver, and her revenue than [that of] gold.

Alternatives To MoneyTrue GainEducation

My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Alternatives To Moneyhonour

It is better to be lowly and a servant {to someone} than self-glorifying and lacking food.

PretenceServanthood, In SocietyShortagesServants Of PeopleSeeking HonourBeing Gay

The craving of a man [is] his steadfast loyalty, and [it is] better [to be] poor than a {liar}.

Being PoorThe End Of LiarsUnconditional Love

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

HumiliationSelf ExaltationMoving UpwardsAbasing PeopleWaiting Till Marriage

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God!

Eating And DrinkingGood ActivityCaused By GodFinding LoveSuccess And Hard WorkBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertaintyhardwork

So I realized that there is {nothing better} for them than to {rejoice and enjoy themselves} during their lives.

ContentmentGood ActivityBeing ContentBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy [the fruit of] his labor, for this is his lot in life. {For no one knows what will happen in the future.}

CareersWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeaccomplishments

But better [off] than both of them is the one who has not yet been born and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Under The SunBabies Sinful From Birth

Even if a man fathers a hundred [children] and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with {his prosperity} and {he does not receive a proper burial}, I deem the stillborn better than him.

Unburied BodiesOne HundredNo BurialsLiving LongMiscarriages And StillbornLack Of A Proper BurialThe More Children The BetterDadsDeath Of A ChildRaising ChildrenLiveBeing A Good FatherDeath Of A FatherHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeHaving A BabyLeaving Parents For Spousefatherhood

{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Useless EndeavourThe Faculty Of SightFocusstrivingwanderingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart.

Fate Of HumanityAfflictions As Blessings In DisguiseThinking ArightDeath Is UniversalDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of Loved OneCelebrationLoss Of A Loved Onegrievingfate

Better to listen to [the] rebuke of [the] wise than for a man to listen to [the] song of fools.

Reproving PeopleWise Man Or FoolFoolscriticismrebuking

Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For [it is] not from wisdom [that] you ask this.

Having A Good DayThe Pastpastwise

So I recommend enjoyment. For there [is] nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun.

LifestylesExperience, of lifeEating And DrinkingUnder The SunSunFunStaying Strong During Hard TimesSleeping PeacefullyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeSunshineEnjoying Liferelaxing

Whoever is joined to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion!

Death, Preparation ForAnimals Fate After DeathLiving Things

So I concluded that wisdom [is] better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.

Limitations Of StrengthBenefits Of WisdomPoor PeopleFamily StrengthSaving Moneystrengh

Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Benefits Of WisdomWeapons Of The BelieverFamily Conflict

{May you kiss me} {passionately with your lips}, for your love [is] better than wine.

KissesLove And WineOther References To Mouthsbreasts

How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

Love And WineA Time For Love

{How is your beloved better than another lover}, O most beautiful among women? {How is your beloved better than another lover}, that you adjure us thus?

And I will give them a monument and a name in my house and within my walls, better than sons and daughters; I will give him an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Memorials For PeopleA New Name

Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in [their own] plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and {they became worse instead of better}.

StubbornnessPathways Of SinSelf WillBackwardsThe Hearts Incination To EvilimaginationattentionFalling Away From God

"Son of man, how will the wood of the vine be {better than} {any of the wood of} the branch which is among the trees of the forest?

And at the end of ten days their appearances appeared better and [they were] healthier of body than all the young men who were eating the fine food of the king.

AdvantagesFat PeopleAppearancesEating Meat

And in every matter of wisdom [and] understanding [about] which the king inquired from them, he found them ten times better [than] all [of] the magicians [and] conjurers that {were in his entire kingdom}.

AstrologyAchievementWisdom, Source Of HumanAstrologersMagiciansTen TimesWise MenGod Giving Understandingpsychics

Then she will pursue {her lovers}, but she will not overtake them; she will seek them and not find [them]; and she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband because [it was] better for me then than now."

Marriage, Between God And His PeopleUnion With Christ, Nature OfOvertakingNot FindingPersonal GoodSeeking But Not Finding PeopleFinding Lovelovers

Cross over [to] Calneh and see, and go from there [to] Hamath Rabbah and go down [to] Gath of the Philistines. [Are] you better than these kingdoms, or is their territory greater than your territory?

Advantages

{And when the sun rose}, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. {And he asked that he could die} and said, "My death [is] better than my life!"

FaintingeastDespondency, Examples OfHeatHopelessnessThe SunWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindCynicismWanting To DieAdvantagesOut Of The EastGod Dispensing WindDesire For DeathHot WeatherGod Appointing OthersLife DespisedrelaxingjonahThe East Wind

Are you better than Thebes? She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters, her rampart [was the] sea and water [was] her wall.

Things SurroundingFigurative WallsSea Dwellers

Bible Theasaurus

Adept (3 instances)
Amend (15 instances)
Beneficial (12 instances)
Better (302 instances)
Dependable (5 instances)
Effective (13 instances)
Expert (90 instances)
Honest (52 instances)
Honorable (62 instances)
Improve (1 instance)
Practiced (94 instances)
Proficient (4 instances)
Respectable (2 instances)
Salutary (1 instance)
Secure (159 instances)
Serious (65 instances)
Skilful (40 instances)
Skillful (88 instances)
Upright (440 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 31

טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 553

יותר 
Yowther 
Usage: 8

יטב 
Yatab 
Usage: 115

יתרון 
Yithrown 
Usage: 10

διαφέρω 
Diaphero 
be better , be of more value , differ from , should carry , publish , drive up and down ,
Usage: 8

καλός 
Kalos 
Usage: 62

κρεῖσσον 
Kreisson 
Usage: 1

κρείττων 
Kreitton 
Usage: 19

λυσιτελεῖ 
Lusitelei 
it is better
Usage: 0

μᾶλλον 
Mallon 
more , rather , the more , better ,
Usage: 66

προέχομαι 
Proechomai 
be better
Usage: 1

συμφέρω 
Sumphero 
Usage: 13

ὑπερέχω 
Huperecho 
Usage: 5

χρηστός 
Chrestos 
Usage: 4

ὠφελέω 
Opheleo 
Usage: 8

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