Be able
כְּהַלStrong’s H3546kehal (ke-hal)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kehal is the Aramaic word usually translated “able”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?”
Meaning
- To be able(P'al) to be able
How it's translated
- able 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 5:8In contextThen came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 5:15In contextAnd now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
Aramaic dictionary
כְּהַל kehal · be able
1) to be able 1a) (P'al) to be able
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.