Word

יְכֵל

yᵉkêl · H3202 · Aramaic · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

to be able to

Mostly used in a negated clause; state in which an activity cannot be carried out, as a result of a lack of skill, strength, or ability of the agent, or other circumstances that make the activity impossible

Examples
Daniel 2:10 The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is no person on earth who could declare the matter to the king, because no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any soothsayer priest, sorcerer, or Chaldean.
Daniel 2:27 Daniel answered before the king and said, “As for the secret about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, sorcerers, soothsayer priests, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.
Daniel 2:47 The king responded to Daniel and said, “Your God truly is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

12 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 3
Not stated: he, she or it 3
Not stated (participle) 3
חַכִּיםwise 2
אֱלָהּGod, god 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 8 groups

לto/for+ חֲוָאshew 2
לto/for+ שְׁזַבdeliver 2
לto/for+ גְּלָהbring over 1
לto/for+ יְדַעcertify 1
לto/for+ נְצַלdeliver 1
לto/for+ שְׁכַחfind 1

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 1 groups

לָאnot 3

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁמַעhear 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Able002001001001: Daniel 3:17 recounts the three men's reply, “our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will rescue us from your hand, O king.”
Patient002001002020: This Patient code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with the Hebrew form (יָכֹל (yâkôl, H3201)), whose “to endure” sense is well attested; this word's own occurrences describe capability or overcoming, never patient endurance.
Succeed002003003020: Daniel 7:21 recounts Daniel's vision, “that horn was waging war with the saints and prevailing against them.”

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָכֹל yâkôl · H3201 · to be able to, to endure · 193×יְכֵלyᵉkêl · H3202מִיכָל mîykâl · H4323 · pool, stream · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3202. yekel or yekil יְכִל (K§ 25, a) β)) verb be able (Daniel) (ᵑ7; Nabataean (rare)…

H3202. yekel
or yekil יְכִל (K§ 25, a) β))
verb be able (Daniel) (ᵑ7; Nabataean (rare) SAC60; Egyptian Aramaic S-CE 8, 11+; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic Schulth83; Biblical Hebrew יָכֹל); —
Pe`al 1. with Infinitive be able to do:Perfect3masculine singular יְכִל Dan 6:21 (subject God), 2 masculine singular יְכֵ֫לְתָּ Dan 2:47; Imperfect3masculine singular יוּכַל (Hebraism, K§ 43, 1. Beisp. b)) Dan 2:10, יִכֻּל Dan 3:29 (subject a god), 2 masculine singular תוכל Dan 5:16 (twice in verse) (<both Qr תִּכּוּל, Kl.c.); Participle יָכִל Dan 3:17; Dan 4:34 (both subject God); plural לִין יָָֽכְּ Dan 2:27; Dan 4:15; Dan 6:5.
2 prevail (Biblical Hebrew
2) against (ל), Participle feminine singular יָָֽכְלָה Dan 7:21.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0