'Greater' in the Bible

God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”

You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven when they dealt proudly against the people.”

I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you,

“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’

“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified to heaven,

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

that he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of hosts was with him.

Then Amnon hated her with a very great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up, go away!”

But she said to him, “No, because this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you have done to me!” Yet he would not listen to her.

As the Lord has been with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David!”

Moreover, the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.

So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

David became greater and greater, for the Lord of hosts was with him.

The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods.

So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.

“Be strong and courageous, do not fear or be dismayed because of the king of Assyria nor because of all the horde that is with him; for the one with us is greater than the one with him.

Indeed, Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.

“Behold, let me tell you, you are not right in this,For God is greater than man.

“As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols,Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

For the iniquity of the daughter of my peopleIs greater than the sin of Sodom,Which was overthrown as in a moment,And no hands were turned toward her.

And He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations.”

And He said to me, “Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing.”

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.”

For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and after an interval of some years he will press on with a great army and much equipment.

Go over to Calneh and look,And go from there to Hamath the great,Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.Are they better than these kingdoms,Or is their territory greater than yours?

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”