Genesis 4:13
And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
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And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Read in context →And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Read in context →33 occurrences in 28 verses.
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dýnamai · doo'-nam-ahee
to be able or possible
Strong's KJV usage: :--be able, can (do, + -not), could, may, might, be possible, be of power.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:24Strong's last: Revelation 9:20
Open full G1410 profile →yâkôl · yaw-kole'
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
Strong's KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Strong's first: Genesis 13:16Strong's last: Daniel 10:17
Open full H3201 profile →eídō · i'-do
used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent G3700 and G3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know
Strong's KJV usage: :--be aware, behold, X can (+ not tell), consider, (have) know(-ledge), look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish, wot.
Strong's first: Matthew 27:65Strong's last: Luke 12:56
Open full G1492 profile →yᵉkêl · yek-ale'
Strong's KJV usage: be able, can, couldest, prevail.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:10Strong's last: Daniel 3:29
Open full H3202 profile →yâçaph · yaw-saf'
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Strong's KJV usage: add, × again, × any more, × cease, × come more, conceive again, continue, exceed, × further, × gather together, get more, give more-over, × henceforth, increase (more and more), join, × longer (bring, do, make, much, put), × (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, × yet, yield.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 7:20Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 17:18
Open full H3254 profile →ginṓskō · ghin-oce'-ko
to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed)
Strong's KJV usage: :--allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) know(-ledge), perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.
Strong's first: Matthew 16:3Strong's last: Matthew 16:3
Open full G1097 profile →diaperáō · dee-ap-er-ah'-o
to cross entirely
Strong's KJV usage: :--go over, pass (over), sail over.
Strong's first: Luke 16:26Strong's last: Luke 16:26
Open full G1276 profile →oudé · oo-deh'
not however, i.e. neither, nor, not even
Strong's KJV usage: :--neither (indeed), never, no (more, nor, not), nor (yet), (also, even, then) not (even, so much as), + nothing, so much as.
Strong's first: John 15:4Strong's last: John 15:4
Open full G3761 profile →poiéō · poy-eh'-o
to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together, be, bear, + bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, + content, continue, deal, + without any delay, (would) do(-ing), execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, X journeying, keep, + lay wait, + lighten the ship, make, X mean, + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield.
Strong's first: Luke 12:4Strong's last: Luke 12:4
Open full G4160 profile →pōs · poce
an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!
Strong's KJV usage: :--how, after (by) what manner (means), that.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:33Strong's last: Matthew 23:33
Open full G4459 profile →ʼîysh · eesh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: Psalms 49:7Strong's last: Psalms 49:7
Open full H376 profile →ʼîythay · ee-thah'ee
properly, entity; used only as a particle of affirmation, there is
Strong's KJV usage: art thou, can, do ye, have, it be, there is (are), × we will not.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:35Strong's last: Daniel 4:35
Open full H383 profile →ʼish · eesh
entity, used only adverbially, there is or are
Strong's KJV usage: are there, none can. Compare 3426.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 14:19Strong's last: 2 Samuel 14:19
Open full H786 profile →yâdaʻ · yaw-dah'
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, × could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-) norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, be learned, lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, × prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), × will be, wist, wit, wot.
Strong's first: Isaiah 56:11Strong's last: Isaiah 56:11
Open full H3045 profile →ʻâsâh · aw-saw'
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Strong's first: Psalms 118:6Strong's last: Psalms 118:6
Open full H6213 profile →sâgâh · saw-gaw'
to enlarge (especially upward, also figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: grow (up), increase.
Strong's first: Job 8:11Strong's last: Job 8:11
Open full H7685 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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CAN, noun A cup or vessel for liquors, in modern times made of metal; as a can of ale.
CAN, verb intransitive preterit tense could, which is from another root. [See Could.]
1. To be able; to have sufficient strength or physical power. One man can lift a weight which another can not. A horse can run a certain distance in a given time.
2. To have means, or instruments, which supply power or ability. A man can build a house, or fit out a ship, if he has the requisite property. A nation cannot prosecute a war, without money or credit. I will lend you a thousand dollars, if I can
3. To be possible.
Nicodemus said, How can these thing be? John 3:2.
4. To have adequate moral power. A man can indulge in pleasure, or he can refrain. He can restrain his appetites, if he will.
5. To have just or legal competent power, that is, right; to be free from any restraint of moral, civil or political obligation, or from any positive prohibition. We can use a highway for travel, for this is permitted by law. A man can or cannot hold an office. The Jews could not eat certain kinds of animals which were declared to be unclean. The House of Commons in England can impeach, but the House of Lords only can try impeachments. In general, we can do whatever neither the laws of God nor of man forbid.
How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God. Genesis 34:1.
I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord, my God, to do less or more. Numbers 22:1.
6. To have natural strength, or capacity; to be susceptible of; to be able or free to undergo any change, or produce any effect, by the laws and constitution of nature, or by divine appointment. Silver can be melted, but cannot be changed into gold.
CAN the rush grow without mire? Job 8:11.
CAN the fig tree bear olive berries? James 3:8.
CAN faith save him? James 2:14.
7. To have competent strength, ability, fortitude, patience, etc., in a passive sense. He cannot bear reproof. I cannot endure this impertinence.
This is a hard saying; who can hear it? John 6:44.
8. To have the requisite knowledge, experience or skill. Young men are not admitted members of college, till they can translate Latin and Greek. An astronomer can calculate an eclipse, though he can not make a coat.
9. To have strength of inclination or motives sufficient to overcome obstacles, impediments, inconvenience or other objection.
I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. Luke 9:1.
I cannot rise and give thee - yet because of him importunity, he will rise and give him. Luke 9:1.
10. To have sufficient capacity; as, a vessel can not hold or contain the whole quantity.
CAN, verb transitive To know.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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