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And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Read in context →For 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.
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
Browse those occurrences →This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
cheírōn · khi'-rone
from an obsolete equivalent χέρης (of uncertain derivation); more evil or aggravated (physically, mentally or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sorer, worse.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:16Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:20
Open full G5501 profile →nâgaph · naw-gaf'
to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)
Strong's KJV usage: beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite (down), strike, stumble, × surely, put to the worse.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 14:12Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 25:22
Open full H5062 profile →râʻaʻ · raw-ah'
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
Strong's first: Genesis 19:9Strong's last: Jeremiah 16:12
Open full H7489 profile →elássōn · el-as'-sone
smaller (in size, quantity, age or quality)
Strong's KJV usage: :--less, under, worse, younger.
Strong's first: John 2:10Strong's last: John 2:10
Open full G1640 profile →hḗtton · hate'-ton
worse (as noun); by implication, less (as adverb)
Strong's KJV usage: :--less, worse.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 11:17Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 11:17
Open full G2276 profile →hysteréō · hoos-ter-eh'-o
to be later, i.e. (by implication) to be inferior; generally, to fall short (be deficient)
Strong's KJV usage: :--come behind (short), be destitute, fail, lack, suffer need, (be in) want, be the worse.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 8:8Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 8:8
Open full G5302 profile →raʻ · rah
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Strong's KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), exceedingly, × great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 33:9Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 33:9
Open full H7451 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
2 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Afterward 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.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
WORSE, adjective [This adjective has the signification of the comparative degree, and as bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and worst are used in lieu of them, although radically they have no relation to bad.]
1. More evil; more bad or ill; more depraved and corrupt; in a moral sense.
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse 2 Timothy 3:13.
There are men who seem to believe they are not bad, while another can be found worse
2. In a physical sense, in regard to health, more sick.
She was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse Mark 5:26.
3. More bad; less perfect or good. This carriage is worse for wear.
The worse
1. The loss; the disadvantage.
Judah was put to the worse before Israel. 2 Kings 14:12.
2. Something less good. Think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
WORSE, adverb In a manner more evil or bad.
We will deal worse with thee than with them. Genesis 19:9.
WORSE, to put to disadvantage, is not in use. [See Worst.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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