# H3201 יָכֹל

יָכֹל (yâkôl), Strong’s H3201: to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might) KJV: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might…. Occurs 192 times.

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*yâkôl* — to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)

KJV: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might…

Occurs 192 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יָכֹל, יָכוֹל 193 vb. be able, have power, prevail, endure
- Qal
- 1 be able, to do a thing,, whether ability be physical, moral, constitutional, or dependent on external authority
- 2 prevail
- 3 abs. have ability, strength, only neg.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 13:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=6) — The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they…
- [Genesis 13:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=16) — I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your…
- [Genesis 15:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=5) — The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.”…
- [Genesis 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=19) — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…
- [Genesis 19:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=22) — Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- [Genesis 24:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=50) — Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
- [Genesis 29:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=8) — They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then…
- [Genesis 30:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=8) — Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
- [Genesis 31:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=35) — She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He…
- [Genesis 32:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=26) — When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s…