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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

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. Numbers 14:16 יְכֹ֣לֶת ye.Kho.let · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

  2. Numbers 22:6 אוּכַל֙ 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

  3. Numbers 22:11 אוּכַ֛ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.

  4. Numbers 22:18 אוּכַ֗ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.

  5. Numbers 22:37 אוּכַ֖ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?

  6. Numbers 22:38 הֲיָכ֥וֹל ha.ya.Khol · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

  7. Numbers 22:38 אוּכַ֖ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

  8. Numbers 24:13 אוּכַ֗ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what Jehovah speaketh, that will I speak?

  9. Deuteronomy 1:9 אוּכַ֥ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

  10. Deuteronomy 7:17 אוּכַ֖ל 'u.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  11. Deuteronomy 7:22 תוּכַל֙ tu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

  12. Deuteronomy 9:28 יְכֹ֣לֶת ye.Kho.let · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

  13. Deuteronomy 12:17 תוּכַ֞ל tu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of thy hand;

  14. Deuteronomy 14:24 תוּכַ֘ל tu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee;

  15. Deuteronomy 16:5 תוּכַ֖ל tu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee;

  16. Deuteronomy 17:15 תוּכַ֗ל tu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

  17. Deuteronomy 21:16 יוּכַ֗ל yu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:

  18. Deuteronomy 22:3 תוּכַ֖ל tu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself.

  19. Deuteronomy 22:19 יוּכַ֥ל yu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

  20. Deuteronomy 22:29 יוּכַ֥ל yu.Khal · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

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