Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H3546
כְּהַל
kehalkeh-hal'
be able
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kᵉhal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3546is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3546
to be able
The King James renders it: be able, could.
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
kehal is rendered "be able". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:26The king responded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me what I saw in the dream, as well as its interpretation?”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The king responded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me what I saw in the dream, as well as its interpretation?”
Daniel 2:26כָּהֵ֗ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four 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
- able4
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּהֻנָּה | kehunnah | priesthood | Uses14 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- כָּהֵ֗ל1
- כָּהֵ֔ל1
- כָהֲלִ֤ין1
- כָהֲלִ֥ין1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2AVqrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2AVqrmsa
Daniel
four uses
The king responded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me what I saw in the dream, as well as its interpretation?”
- כָּהֵ֗לkahelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: 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.”
- כָּהֵ֔לkahelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: able
So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.
- כָהֲלִ֤יןkhahalinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: able
Now the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this inscription and interpret it for me, but they could not give its interpretation.
- כָהֲלִ֥יןkhahalinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: 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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.