Word

כְּהַל

kᵉhal · H3546 · Aramaic · 4 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 2:26 The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?”
Daniel 4:18 ‘This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, tell me its interpretation, since none of the wise men of my kingdom is able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, because a spirit of the holy gods is in you.’
Daniel 5:8 Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.

How it’s used In 3 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

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated (participle) 2
אַנְתָּהyou 1
ךָyour 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for+ חֲוָאshew 1
לto/for+ יְדַעcertify 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לָאnot 2

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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Near synonyms 1 word

יָכֹל yâkôl · H3201 · to be able to, to endure: יָכֹל (yâkôl, H3201) and כְּהַל (kᵉhal, H3546) both mean "be able, can, could" and occupy the same functional niche; יָכֹל (yâkôl, H3201) has a much richer range of renderings than כְּהַל (kᵉhal, H3546).

Semantic domains 1 entry

Able002001001001: Daniel 2:26 has the king ask Daniel, “are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?”

Word family 3 words

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

כּוּל kûwl · H3557 · to hold, to contain, to accommodate · 38×כְּהַלkᵉhal · H3546כִּילַי kîylay · H3596 · scoundrel, rascal, villain · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3546. kehal [כְּהַל] verb be able (ᵑ7 id.; Egyptian Aramaic, S-CPap.A 6. 8.11+; Ethiopic…

H3546. kehal
[כְּהַל] verb be able (ᵑ7 id.; Egyptian Aramaic, S-CPap.A 6. 8.11+; Ethiopic compare synonym יְכִל); —
Pe`al Participle active, usually followed by infinitiveabsolute כָּהֵל Dan 2:26; Dan 4:15 (infinitive omitted); plural absolute כָּֽהֲלִין Dan 5:8, Dan 5:15.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Able4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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