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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Could

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

166exact KJV occurrences 111Old Testament 55New Testament 37books containing the word 16mapped Strong's IDs 101occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 13:6

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 14:3

And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where could appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 1111 verses Exodus 77 verses Numbers 11 verses Joshua 33 verses Judges 88 verses Ruth 11 verses 1 Samuel 66 verses 2 Samuel 44 verses 1 Kings 55 verses 2 Kings 33 verses 1 Chronicles 55 verses 2 Chronicles 1313 verses Ezra 33 verses Nehemiah 44 verses Esther 33 verses Job 43 verses Psalms 44 verses Song of Solomon 11 verses Isaiah 76 verses Jeremiah 66 verses Lamentations 22 verses Ezekiel 32 verses Daniel 55 verses Hosea 11 verses Jonah 11 verses Matthew 44 verses Mark 1111 verses Luke 1212 verses John 44 verses Acts 88 verses Romans 22 verses 1 Corinthians 22 verses 2 Corinthians 33 verses Galatians 11 verses 1 Thessalonians 22 verses Hebrews 44 verses Revelation 22 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG2192
ἔχω

échō · ekh'-o

3 times translated as this KJV form708 total Strong's occurrences

to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition)

Strong's KJV usage: :--be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, + lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, + recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, + uncircumcised, use.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Mark 14:8Strong's last: Hebrews 6:13

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HebrewH3045
יָדַע

yâdaʻ · yaw-dah'

2 times translated as this KJV form941 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Jeremiah 6:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 8:12

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GreekG1492
εἴδω

eídō · i'-do

1 times translated as this KJV form743 total Strong's occurrences

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 20:7Strong's last: Luke 20:7

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GreekG5342
φέρω

phérō · fer'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences

to "bear" or carry (in a very wide application, literally and figuratively, as follows)

Strong's KJV usage: :--be, bear, bring (forth), carry, come, + let her drive, be driven, endure, go on, lay, lead, move, reach, rushing, uphold.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Hebrews 12:20Strong's last: Hebrews 12:20

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HebrewH5234
נָכַר

nâkar · naw-kar'

1 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)

Strong's KJV usage: acknowledge, × could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Nehemiah 13:24Strong's last: Nehemiah 13:24

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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166 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Judges 6:27
no direct Strong's tag

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

Judges 12:6
no direct Strong's tag

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Judges 14:14
H3201

And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

Judges 17:8
no direct Strong's tag

And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

Judges 20:16
no direct Strong's tag

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

Ruth 3:14
no direct Strong's tag

And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.

1 Samuel 3:2
H3201

And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;

1 Samuel 4:15
H3201

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

1 Samuel 10:21
no direct Strong's tag

When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.

1 Samuel 23:13
no direct Strong's tag

Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.

1 Samuel 30:10
no direct Strong's tag

But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

1 Samuel 30:21
no direct Strong's tag

And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

2 Samuel 1:10
no direct Strong's tag

So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.

2 Samuel 3:11
H3201

And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.

2 Samuel 17:20
no direct Strong's tag

And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 22:39
no direct Strong's tag

And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

1 Kings 5:3
H3201

Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 8:5
no direct Strong's tag

And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 8:11
H3201

So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 13:4
H3201

And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

1 Kings 14:4
H3201

And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

2 Kings 3:26
H3201

And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

2 Kings 4:40
H3201

So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

2 Kings 16:5
H3201

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

1 Chronicles 12:2
no direct Strong's tag

They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

could

COULD, pronoun COOD. [The past tense of can, according to our customary arrangement in grammar; but in reality a distinct word, can having no past tense. could we receive through the Celtic dialects.]

1. Had sufficient strength or physical power. A sick man could not lift his hand. Isaac was old and could not see. Alexander could easily conquer the effeminate Asiatics.

2. Had adequate means or instruments. The men could defray their own expenses. The country was exhausted and could not support the war.

3. Had adequate moral power. We heard the story, but could not believe it. Th intemperate man could have restrained his appetite for strong drink. He could have refrained, if we would.

My mind could not be towards this people. Jeremiah 15:1.

4. Had power or capacity b the laws of its nature. The tree could not grow for want of water.

5. Had competent legal power; had right, or had the requisite qualifications. Formerly, a citizen could not vote for officers of government without the possession of some property. AB could not be elected to the office of senator, for want of estate. BC, not being the blood of the ancestor, could not inherit his estate.

6. Had sufficient capacity. The world could not contain the books. John 21:25.

7. Was capable or susceptible, by its nature or constitution, as of some change. He found a substance that could not be fused.

8. Had adequate strength or fortitude; as, he could not endure the pain or the reproach.

9. Had motives sufficient to overcome objections. He thought at first he could not comply with the request; but after consideration he determined to comply.

10. Had competent knowledge or skill. He could solve the most difficult problems.

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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