יָכֹל (ya.khol) means “be able” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: yaw-kole' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
יָכֹל · ya.khol · be able
1) to prevail, overcome, endure, have power, be able 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be able, be able to gain or accomplish, be able to endure, be able to reach 1a2) to prevail, prevail over or against, overcome, be victor 1a3) to have ability, have strength Aramaic equivalent: ye.khel (יְכִל "be able" H3202)
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or (fuller) יָכוֹל; a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV glosses: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| could | 11 |
| can | 9 |
| prevail | 6 |
| able | 4 |
| be able | 4 |
| you can | 4 |
| i could | 3 |
| they could | 3 |
| and prevailed | 2 |
| but can | 2 |
| could i bear | 2 |
| endure | 2 |
| has been able | 2 |
| he could | 2 |
| overcome | 2 |
| overpower | 2 |
| were unable | 2 |
| you must | 2 |
| and could | 1 |
| and overcame | 1 |
| and overpower | 1 |
| and prevail | 1 |
| and prevailing | 1 |
| and you have prevailed | 1 |
| appoint | 1 |
| are able | 1 |
| be enabled | 1 |
| but could | 1 |
| but he could | 1 |
| but they could | 1 |
| but they could not prevail | 1 |
| but when she could | 1 |
| can i | 1 |
| could not | 1 |
| ever been able | 1 |
| for me to attain | 1 |
| good | 1 |
| he is able | 1 |
| i am | 1 |
| i have overcome him | 1 |
| incurable | 1 |
| is able | 1 |
| ish-bosheth did not dare | 1 |
| may | 1 |
| not | 1 |
| one can | 1 |
| one dared | 1 |
| powerless | 1 |
| prevailed | 1 |
| so that he could | 1 |
| so that we may prevail | 1 |
| so they could | 1 |
| that he could | 1 |
| that they were unable | 1 |
| then you will be able | 1 |
| they can | 1 |
| they dared | 1 |
| unable | 1 |
| was i able | 1 |
| was unable | 1 |
| we can certainly conquer | 1 |
| we can overpower | 1 |
| whom they were | 1 |
| will be able | 1 |
| will surely prevail | 1 |
| won | 1 |
| would | 1 |
| you can do | 1 |
| you will | 1 |
| you will not prevail | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| could | 15 |
| cannot | 10 |
| can | 7 |
| i cannot | 7 |
| but they could | 5 |
| i am not able | 3 |
| if thou be able | 3 |
| so that they could | 3 |
| thou mayest | 3 |
| was not able | 3 |
| we cannot | 3 |
| able | 2 |
| against thee but they shall not prevail | 2 |
| and i cannot | 2 |
| and they could | 2 |
| can i endure | 2 |
| for they could | 2 |
| he could | 2 |
| he may | 2 |
| i may | 2 |
| it cannot | 2 |
| may | 2 |
| that cannot | 2 |
| they could | 2 |
| thou art not able | 2 |
| thou canst | 2 |
| you for he shall not be able | 2 |
| against it but could | 1 |
| also can | 1 |
| also were not able | 1 |
| and also shalt still | 1 |
| and canst | 1 |
| and could | 1 |
| and hast prevailed | 1 |
| and have prevailed | 1 |
| and he could | 1 |
| and he shall not be able | 1 |
| and i could | 1 |
| and i have prevailed | 1 |
| and prevail | 1 |
| and prevailed | 1 |
| and shall not be able | 1 |
| and they cannot | 1 |
| and they shall not prevail | 1 |
| and thou shalt also prevail | 1 |
| and we shall prevail | 1 |
| and what was i able | 1 |
| and when she could | 1 |
| any ways | 1 |
| as thou couldest | 1 |
| at all | 1 |
| be able | 1 |
| but could | 1 |
| but he shall not prevail | 1 |
| but if i prevail | 1 |
| but if ye cannot | 1 |
| but who can | 1 |
| for me peradventure i shall prevail | 1 |
| for thee thou art not able | 1 |
| for they might | 1 |
| for we may | 1 |
| for who can | 1 |
| for who is able | 1 |
| her he may | 1 |
| him and could | 1 |
| howbeit we may | 1 |
| i can | 1 |
| i cannot away with | 1 |
| i could | 1 |
| i have prevailed | 1 |
| if he be able | 1 |
| if so be thou shalt be able | 1 |
| if thou canst | 1 |
| is not able | 1 |
| it for we are well able | 1 |
| likewise thou mayest | 1 |
| me them peradventure i shall be able | 1 |
| might | 1 |
| neither may | 1 |
| now therefore we may | 1 |
| over thee thou mayest | 1 |
| prevail | 1 |
| prevailed | 1 |
| shall be able | 1 |
| shall not be able | 1 |
| should be able | 1 |
| so that he could | 1 |
| so that i cannot | 1 |
| so that men could | 1 |
| so that we are not able | 1 |
| than i and hast prevailed | 1 |
| that could | 1 |
| that he could | 1 |
| that he prevailed | 1 |
| that i cannot | 1 |
| that i could | 1 |
| that one cannot be able | 1 |
| that they could | 1 |
| that thou canst do | 1 |
| them that they were not able | 1 |
| themselves yet can they not prevail | 1 |
| then thou shalt be able | 1 |
| they are not able | 1 |
| they attain | 1 |
| they can | 1 |
| they cannot | 1 |
| thither for i cannot | 1 |
| thou not unto me am i not able | 1 |
| thou shalt not prevail | 1 |
| to overcome | 1 |
| to thyself for i cannot | 1 |
| unto thee have i now any power | 1 |
| unto them we cannot | 1 |
| upon me so that i am not able | 1 |
| upon thee thou shalt not be able | 1 |
| upon them which they shall not be able | 1 |
| was able | 1 |
| we be not able | 1 |
| we may prevail | 1 |
| when it cannot | 1 |
| whereof thou canst | 1 |
| who is able | 1 |
| will not i suffer | 1 |
| ye cannot | 1 |
| yet could | 1 |
| yet shall he not be able | 1 |
| yet they have not prevailed | 1 |
Page 4 of 4. 183 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Read word by wordTo whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
Read word by wordCan the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.
Read word by wordWhy are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
Read word by wordThen I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
Read word by word“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Read word by wordand you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
Read word by wordYou have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
Read word by wordIf I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
Read word by wordFor I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
Read word by wordBut the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
Read word by wordThen Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;
Read word by word“Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.”
Read word by wordAll the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
Read word by wordSo the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Read word by wordBut I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
Read word by wordConcerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
Read word by wordMy transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
Read word by wordThey wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
Read word by wordThey will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
Read word by wordTherefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
Read word by wordOnce again he measured off a thousand cubits, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough for swimming—a river that could not be crossed on foot.
Read word by wordAs I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,
Read word by wordHow can I, your servant, speak with you, my lord? Now I have no strength, nor is any breath left in me.”
Read word by wordWhen Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
Read word by wordHe has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Read word by wordYes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.5
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
Read word by wordAll the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
Read word by wordYour eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Read word by wordNeither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
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