1. יכל
to be able, have power, prevail
The corpus record — Hebrew
יָֽכְל֖וּ
yakol
to be able, have power, prevail
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 194 · 6.32/10k
Senses
2. יָכֹל
be able, have power, prevail, endure
3. יָכֹל
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
Attestations
- יָֽכְל֖וּ Genesis 13:6 (BHS)
- יוּכַ֣ל Genesis 13:16 (BHS)
- תּוּכַ֖ל Genesis 15:5 (BHS)
- אוּכַל֙ Genesis 19:19 (BHS)
- אוּכַל֙ Genesis 19:22 (BHS)
- נוּכַ֛ל Genesis 24:50 (BHS)
6 of 194 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.