יָכֹל

ya.khol · be able

Hebrew · Strong's H3201 · Verb · Sounds like: yaw-kole' · 194 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

or (fuller) יָכוֹל; a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might); be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
יָכֹל, יָכוֹל 193 vb. be able, have power, prevail, endure
Qal
1. be able, to do a thing,, whether ability be physical, moral, constitutional, or dependent on external authority
2. prevail
3. abs. have ability, strength, only neg.

Every occurrence

  1. Nehemiah 4:10 נוּכַ֔ל nu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

  2. Nehemiah 6:3 אוּכַ֖ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

  3. Nehemiah 7:61 יָכְל֗וּ ya.khe.Lu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

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