Strong's #3201: yakol (pronounced yaw-kole')
or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}; a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might):--be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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yâkôl
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 194 times:
Isaiah 29:11: "Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it"
Isaiah 36:8: "thee two thousand if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon"
Isaiah 36:14: "deceive you: for he shall not be able"
Isaiah 46:2: "They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves"
Isaiah 47:11: "shall fall upon be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon"
Isaiah 47:12: "thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail."
Isaiah 56:10: "ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark;"
Isaiah 57:20: "are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up"
Isaiah 59:14: "truth is fallen and equity cannot enter."
Jeremiah 1:19: "And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith"
Jeremiah 3:5: "thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest."
Jeremiah 5:22: "pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over"
Jeremiah 6:10: "behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot behold, the word"
Jeremiah 11:11: "upon them, which be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto"
Jeremiah 13:23: "his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good,"
Jeremiah 14:9: "as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD,"
Jeremiah 15:20: "and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save"
Jeremiah 18:6: "O house of Israel, cannot cannot I do with you as this potter? saith"
Jeremiah 19:11: "a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury"
Jeremiah 20:7: "thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,"
Jeremiah 20:9: "in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not"
Jeremiah 20:10: "watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge"
Jeremiah 20:11: "therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: ashamed; for"
Jeremiah 36:5: "saying, I am shut up; I cannot go of the LORD:"
Jeremiah 38:5: "for the king is not he that can do any thing"
Jeremiah 38:22: "women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire,"
Jeremiah 44:22: "So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil"
Jeremiah 49:10: "his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren,"
Jeremiah 49:23: "they are fainthearted; on the sea; it cannot it cannot be quiet."
Lamentations 1:14: "the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up."
Lamentations 4:14: "men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments."
Ezekiel 7:19: "their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD:"
Ezekiel 33:12: "from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth."
Ezekiel 42:5: "were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower,"
Ezekiel 47:5: "a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters"
Daniel 10:17: "For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this"
Hosea 5:13: "to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor"
Hosea 8:5: "is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?"
Hosea 12:4: "Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel,"
Amos 7:10: "of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all"
Obadiah 1:7: "the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under"
Jonah 1:13: "hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea"
Habakkuk 1:13: "eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on"
Zephaniah 1:18: "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's"
