Be able
יְכִלStrong’s H3202yekhel (ye-khel)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yekhel is the Aramaic word usually translated “able”, “being able” and “have been able”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.”
Meaning
- To be able(P'al)
How it's translated
- able 3
- being able 2
- he will be able 1
- you have been able 1
- he is able 1
- you are able 1
- you will be able 1
- was he able 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 10
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:27In contextDaniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
- Daniel 2:47In contextThe king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
- Daniel 3:17In contextIf it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
- Daniel 3:29In contextTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- Daniel 4:18In contextThis dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.
- Daniel 4:37In contextNow I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Aramaic dictionary
יְכִל yekhel · be able
1) to be able 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to be able 1a2) to prevail
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “able” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ABLE, adjective
a'bl. [Latin habitis]
- Having physical power sufficient; having competent power or strength, bodily or mental; as a man able to perform military service - a child is not able to reason on abstract subjects.
- Having strong or unusual powers of mind, or intellectual qualifications; as an able minister.
- Having large or competent property; or simply have property, or means.“Every man shall give as he is able” Deuteronomy 16:17
- Having competent strength or fortitude.
All definitions
- Having sufficient knowledge or skill.
- Having competent moral power or qualifications.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.