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To qualify

ἱκανόωStrong’s G2427

hikanoō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Hikanoō is the Greek word usually translated “has made competent” and “having qualified”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
2 Corinthians 3:6 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “has made competent” and “having qualified”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • has made competent 1
  • having qualified 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Corinthians 1
  • Colossians 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary

ἱκανόω hikanoō · to qualify

ἱκανόω, -ῶ (ἱκανός), [in LXX chiefly for רַב ;] to make sufficient, render fit: with dupl. accusative, 2Co.3:6; with accusative of person(s) before εἰς, Col.1:12.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “qualify” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

QUAL'IFY, verb transitive

[Latin qualis, such, and facio, to make.]

  1. To fit for any place, office, occupation or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; as, to qualify a man for a judge, for a minister of state or of the gospel, for a general or admiral.
  2. To make capable of any employment or privilege; to furnish with legal power or capacity; as, in England, to qualify a man to kill game.
  3. To abate; to soften; to diminish; as, to qualify the rigor of a statute.
  4. To ease; to assuage.
All definitions
  1. To modify; to restrain; to limit by exceptions; as, to qualify words or expressions, or to qualify the sense of words or phrases.
  2. To modify; to regulate; to vary; as, to qualify sounds.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.