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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.

Esther 7:4
no direct Strong's tag

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Esther 9:2
no direct Strong's tag

The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

Job 4:16
no direct Strong's tag

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

Job 16:4
no direct Strong's tag

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

Job 16:4
no direct Strong's tag

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

Job 31:23
H3201

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

Psalms 37:36
no direct Strong's tag

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Psalms 55:12
no direct Strong's tag

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Psalms 73:7
no direct Strong's tag

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Psalms 78:44
no direct Strong's tag

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

Song of Solomon 5:6
no direct Strong's tag

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Isaiah 5:4
no direct Strong's tag

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

Isaiah 7:1
H3201

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Isaiah 30:5
no direct Strong's tag

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Isaiah 33:23
no direct Strong's tag

Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

Isaiah 33:23
no direct Strong's tag

Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

Isaiah 41:28
no direct Strong's tag

For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

Isaiah 46:2
H3201

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Jeremiah 6:15
H3045

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:12
H3045

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 15:1
no direct Strong's tag

Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Jeremiah 20:9
H3201

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Jeremiah 24:2
no direct Strong's tag

One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Jeremiah 44:22
H3201

So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Lamentations 4:14
H3201

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

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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