UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: χείρων; -ον; χείρων; gen.; -ονος

Sense 1: worse, very bad

Semantic entry: 88.107

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Bad, Evil, Harmful, Damaging

Definition: (comparative of κακός[a] ‘bad,’ 88.106: κακός / 88.106: κακῶς) pertaining to being worse in the sense of being harmful and damaging

Show passage in OET: TI1 5:8

OET-RV TI1 5:8

8 because if someone is not providing for their own household, then they’ve rejected their faith in God and they’re acting worse than an unbeliever.

OET-LV TI1 5:8

8 But if anyone is_ not _providing of _their own and most _of _all household, he _has _disowned the faith, and is worse than an_unbeliever.

Show passage in OET: TI2 3:13

OET-RV TI2 3:13

13 Meanwhile evil people and scammers will get worse and worse—deceiving others and then being deceived themselves.

OET-LV TI2 3:13

13 But evil people and swindlers will _be _progressing to the worse, deceiving and being _strayed.

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Sense 2: worse

Semantic entry: 65.29

Semantic domains: Value

Subdomains: Good, Bad

Definition: pertaining to being less satisfactory than something else

Show passage in OET: MAT 9:16

OET-RV MAT 9:16

16 No one patches old clothes with new material, because the patch will shrink and the clothes would end up with a worse hole.

OET-LV MAT 9:16

16 But no _one is _putting _on a_patch of_ unshrunken _cloth on an_ old _garment, because/for the patch of _it is _tearing _away from the garment, and a_worse tear is _becoming.

Show passage in OET: MAT 12:45

OET-RV MAT 12:45

45 So it goes and finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all go to live there, so that person is worse off than they were at the beginning. So now, it’ll be just like that for this evil generation.”

OET-LV MAT 12:45

45 Then it _is _going and is _taking with itself seven other spirits more _evil than itself, and having _come _in it _is _dwelling there, and the last state of _the that person is _becoming worse than the first.
Thus it _will _be also to_ the this - evil _generation.

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All 9 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 9:16 · OET MAT 12:45 · OET MAT 27:64

MRK: OET MRK 2:21 · OET MRK 5:26

LUK: OET LUK 11:26

JHN: OET JHN 5:14

HEB: OET HEB 10:29

PE2: OET PE2 2:20

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

χείρων

Form 1

Sense 1: worse, very bad

Sense 2: worse