Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H3202
יְכֵל
yekelyek-ale'
be able
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yᵉkêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3202is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3202
{to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)}
The King James renders it: be able, can, couldest, prevail.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yekel is rendered "be able". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:10The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
Daniel 2:10יוּכַ֖ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's eleven uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- able3
- being able2
- ¿ was he able1
- he is able1
- he will be able1
- you are able1
- you have been able1
- you will be able1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יָכִ֖ל2
- הַיְכִ֥ל1
- יוּכַ֖ל1
- יִכֻּ֥ל1
- יָכְלִ֖ין1
- יָכְלִ֤ין1
- יָכְלִ֣ין1
- יְכֵ֔לְתָּ1
- תִיכּ֥וּל1
- תִּכ֨וּל1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3AVqrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2AVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2AVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2AVqrmsa
- question particle + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1ATi/Vqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1AVqp2ms
Daniel
eleven uses
The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
- יוּכַ֖לyukhalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be able
Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, enchanter, medium, or magician can explain to the king the mystery of which he inquires.
- יָכְלִ֖יןyakhelinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: being able
The king said to Daniel, “Your God is truly the God of gods and Lord of kings, the Revealer of Mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”
- יְכֵ֔לְתָּyekheletaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have been able
If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.
- יָכִ֖לyakhilverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: being able
Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”
- יִכֻּ֥לyikulverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is able
This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because none of the wise men of my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you are able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
- יָכְלִ֤יןyakhelinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: able
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- יָכִ֖לyakhilverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: able
But I have heard about you, that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. Therefore, if you can read this inscription and give me its interpretation, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- תִיכּ֥וּלtukhalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you are able
- תִּכ֨וּלtukhalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will be able
Thus the administrators and satraps sought a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or corruption, because he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.
- יָכְלִ֣יןyakhelinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: able
When he reached the den, he cried out in a voice of anguish, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
- הַיְכִ֥לhaykhilquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ was he able
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.