Strong G5501χείρων
worse than
- Transliteration
- cheirōn
- Pronunciation
- khi'-rone
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Irregular compound of G2556; from an obsolete equivalent χέρης cherēs (of uncertain derivation);
more evil or aggravated (physically mentally or morally): - sorer worse.
more evil or aggravated (physically mentally or morally): - sorer worse.
Detailed definition
χείρων, -ον, compar. of κακός
[in LXX: 1Ki.17:43 B, Wis.15:18 17:6, 3Ma.5:20 *;]
worse: Mat.9:16 12:45 27:64, Mrk.2:21, Luk.11:26, Jhn.5:14, 1Ti.5:8, Heb.10:29, 2Pe.2:20; εἰς (ἐπὶ) τὸ χεῖρον, Mrk.5:26, 2Ti.3:13.†
(AS)
[in LXX: 1Ki.17:43 B, Wis.15:18 17:6, 3Ma.5:20 *;]
worse: Mat.9:16 12:45 27:64, Mrk.2:21, Luk.11:26, Jhn.5:14, 1Ti.5:8, Heb.10:29, 2Pe.2:20; εἰς (ἐπὶ) τὸ χεῖρον, Mrk.5:26, 2Ti.3:13.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5501 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- bad9
- sorer1
- worse1
First verses
- Matthew 9:16No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
- Matthew 12:45Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
- Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
- Mark 2:21No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
- Mark 5:26And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
- Luke 11:26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
- John 5:14Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
- 1 Timothy 5:8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
- 2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
- Hebrews 10:29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
- 2 Peter 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
χείρων, ὁ, ἡ,
neuter χεῖρον, genitive -ονος, accusative -ονα: nominative and accusative plural χείρονες, -ας, χείρονα, contraction in Attic dialect Prose χείρους, χείρ; dative χείροσι, poetry χειρόνεσσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.22)]:—(for Epic dialect form χερείων, poetry χειρότερος, χερειότερος, (see entry).):—irregular comparative of κακός: (χείρων from *χερ-yων, compare χερείων):
I of persons, mcaner, inferior, either in bodily strength and bravery, or in rank, opposed to ἀρείων, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.238, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.133; σὺ μὲν ἐσθλὸς ἐγὼ δὲ σέθεν πολὺ χείρων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.434; τοῦ γένετ᾽ ἐκ πατρὸς πολὺ χείρονος υἱὸς ἀμείνων 15.641, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.82; ἦ πολὺ χείρονες ἄνδρες ἀμύμονος ἀνδρὸς ἄκοιτιν μνῶνται 21.325)]; opposed to κρείσσων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).34(52); τὸν ὄλβιον τόν τε χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 422 (Lyric poetry); τὰ χείρονα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 192, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 196.)]
I.2 later in moral sense, worse than others, sometimes almost like a positive, knave, opposed to ἀγαθός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 456, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.9, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.3; οἱ πένητες καὶ οἱ δημόται καὶ οἱ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.4, compare 3.10)]; οἱ χ., opposed to οἱ ἀγαθοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 460c, etc.)]
I.2.b χ. βίος, opposed to ἀμείνων,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 618d; γνώμη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.7.)]
I.3 worse in quality, inferior, of horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.572)]: inferior, less skilful, ἰητροί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 6)]; ζωγράφοι, δημιουργοί, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 429a, “R.” 421e, etc.: χ. εἰς σοφίαν, εἰς τὴν ἀρετήν, [prev. author] “Tht.” 162c, “R.” 335b; πρὸς ἀλήθειαν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JTr.” 48; with _accusative_, χ. τὰ πολεμικά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.20)]; χ. τὴν ψυχήν, τὴν διάνοιαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.46. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.43; τὰ ἄλλα μηδὲν χ. [prev. author] 4.105)]; with infinitive, χ. ἡμῶν ταῦτα ποιεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.16)]; οὐδὲν χείρους ἔσεσθε.. ἀκηκοότες you will be none the worse for having heard.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.139)]; less kind, μὴ χ. περὶ ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς εἶναι.. τῶν ὑπαρχόντων [Refs ([prev. author] 2.2.)]
II of things, inferior in quality, ἄεθλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.413; ὑποδήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 13.10; ὄνομα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 429b.)]
II.2 worse, harder, more severe, νόσος [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 220; μοῖρα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 248e; τιμωρία NT.Heb.10.29.)]
III neuter,
III.1 as a substantive, τὸ χ. inferiority, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Polemo Sophista “Callimachus” 27)]; but mostly in phrases with Preps., ἐπὶ τὸ χ. τρέπεσθαι, κλῖναι, fall off, get worse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.2, “Mem.” 3.5.13; ἐπὶ τὸ χ. μεταβάλλει ἑαυτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 381b)]; ἀλλοιοῦσθαι ἐπὶ τὸ χ., opposed to ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.3.3)]; also πάντα ὑποπτεύοντες ἐπὶ τὸ χ. putting the worst construction on.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.85; λαμβάνειν τι ἐπὶ τὸ χ. 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 16.7.4; also πρὸς τὸ χ. μεταβάλλειν 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.57; κατὰ τὸ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 720e)]; in the lower sense, opposed to κατὰ τὸ κρεῖττον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 7: less frequently in _plural_, ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω ἰέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.9.9; τὰ χ. προαιρεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.110.)]
III.2 as a predicate, ἀλλὰ σοὶ αὐτῷ χ. (i.e. ἐστί or ἔσται) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.515, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.4)]; with a negative, οὐ χ. [ἐστι] with infinitive, we may as well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 105a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1127a14)]; simply οὐ χεῖρον, in an answer, it is as well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 37; λάβ᾽, ὦγάθ᾽· οὐδὲν χ. 4th c.BC: Clearchus Comicus 4.)]
III.3 as adverb, worse, χ. βουλεύσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46, compare 6.89; χ. πρᾶξαι [prev. author] 7.67)]; βιῶναι, ζῆν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 344e, 519d.)]
III.3.b in inferior degree, less, ἀγαπᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Lg.” 928a; φυλακὰς χ. φυλαττομένας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.17, etc.)]
B superlative χείριστος, η, ον, worst, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 303a, etc.)]; ὁ χ., opposed to ὁ βέλτιστος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.2; especially οἱ χ.)]men of lowest degrce, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.32)]. adverb χείριστα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 687a24, “Metaphorical” 1083b2 (uncertain 1.);)] also -τως [LXX (LXX.2Mac.7.39.)]
neuter χεῖρον, genitive -ονος, accusative -ονα: nominative and accusative plural χείρονες, -ας, χείρονα, contraction in Attic dialect Prose χείρους, χείρ; dative χείροσι, poetry χειρόνεσσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.22)]:—(for Epic dialect form χερείων, poetry χειρότερος, χερειότερος, (see entry).):—irregular comparative of κακός: (χείρων from *χερ-yων, compare χερείων):
I of persons, mcaner, inferior, either in bodily strength and bravery, or in rank, opposed to ἀρείων, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.238, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.133; σὺ μὲν ἐσθλὸς ἐγὼ δὲ σέθεν πολὺ χείρων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.434; τοῦ γένετ᾽ ἐκ πατρὸς πολὺ χείρονος υἱὸς ἀμείνων 15.641, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.82; ἦ πολὺ χείρονες ἄνδρες ἀμύμονος ἀνδρὸς ἄκοιτιν μνῶνται 21.325)]; opposed to κρείσσων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).34(52); τὸν ὄλβιον τόν τε χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 422 (Lyric poetry); τὰ χείρονα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 192, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 196.)]
I.2 later in moral sense, worse than others, sometimes almost like a positive, knave, opposed to ἀγαθός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 456, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.9, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.3; οἱ πένητες καὶ οἱ δημόται καὶ οἱ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.4, compare 3.10)]; οἱ χ., opposed to οἱ ἀγαθοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 460c, etc.)]
I.2.b χ. βίος, opposed to ἀμείνων,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 618d; γνώμη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.7.)]
I.3 worse in quality, inferior, of horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.572)]: inferior, less skilful, ἰητροί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 6)]; ζωγράφοι, δημιουργοί, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 429a, “R.” 421e, etc.: χ. εἰς σοφίαν, εἰς τὴν ἀρετήν, [prev. author] “Tht.” 162c, “R.” 335b; πρὸς ἀλήθειαν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JTr.” 48; with _accusative_, χ. τὰ πολεμικά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.20)]; χ. τὴν ψυχήν, τὴν διάνοιαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.46. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.43; τὰ ἄλλα μηδὲν χ. [prev. author] 4.105)]; with infinitive, χ. ἡμῶν ταῦτα ποιεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.16)]; οὐδὲν χείρους ἔσεσθε.. ἀκηκοότες you will be none the worse for having heard.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.139)]; less kind, μὴ χ. περὶ ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς εἶναι.. τῶν ὑπαρχόντων [Refs ([prev. author] 2.2.)]
II of things, inferior in quality, ἄεθλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.413; ὑποδήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 13.10; ὄνομα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 429b.)]
II.2 worse, harder, more severe, νόσος [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 220; μοῖρα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 248e; τιμωρία NT.Heb.10.29.)]
III neuter,
III.1 as a substantive, τὸ χ. inferiority, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Polemo Sophista “Callimachus” 27)]; but mostly in phrases with Preps., ἐπὶ τὸ χ. τρέπεσθαι, κλῖναι, fall off, get worse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.2, “Mem.” 3.5.13; ἐπὶ τὸ χ. μεταβάλλει ἑαυτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 381b)]; ἀλλοιοῦσθαι ἐπὶ τὸ χ., opposed to ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.3.3)]; also πάντα ὑποπτεύοντες ἐπὶ τὸ χ. putting the worst construction on.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.85; λαμβάνειν τι ἐπὶ τὸ χ. 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 16.7.4; also πρὸς τὸ χ. μεταβάλλειν 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.57; κατὰ τὸ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 720e)]; in the lower sense, opposed to κατὰ τὸ κρεῖττον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 7: less frequently in _plural_, ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω ἰέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.9.9; τὰ χ. προαιρεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.110.)]
III.2 as a predicate, ἀλλὰ σοὶ αὐτῷ χ. (i.e. ἐστί or ἔσται) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.515, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.4)]; with a negative, οὐ χ. [ἐστι] with infinitive, we may as well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 105a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1127a14)]; simply οὐ χεῖρον, in an answer, it is as well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 37; λάβ᾽, ὦγάθ᾽· οὐδὲν χ. 4th c.BC: Clearchus Comicus 4.)]
III.3 as adverb, worse, χ. βουλεύσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46, compare 6.89; χ. πρᾶξαι [prev. author] 7.67)]; βιῶναι, ζῆν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 344e, 519d.)]
III.3.b in inferior degree, less, ἀγαπᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Lg.” 928a; φυλακὰς χ. φυλαττομένας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.17, etc.)]
B superlative χείριστος, η, ον, worst, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 303a, etc.)]; ὁ χ., opposed to ὁ βέλτιστος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.2; especially οἱ χ.)]men of lowest degrce, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.32)]. adverb χείριστα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 687a24, “Metaphorical” 1083b2 (uncertain 1.);)] also -τως [LXX (LXX.2Mac.7.39.)]