Genesis 2:16
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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Mayest
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Revelation 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
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34 occurrences in 31 verses.
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Genesis
55 verses
Exodus
99 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
44 verses
Deuteronomy
3431 verses
Joshua
32 verses
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33 verses
1 Samuel
44 verses
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33 verses
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44 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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55 verses
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33 verses
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66 verses
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33 verses
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32 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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33 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
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11 verses
3 John
11 verses
Revelation
31 verses
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.
יָכֹל
yâkôl · yaw-kole'
5 times translated as this KJV form193 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 7:22Strong's last: Deuteronomy 22:3
Open full H3201 profile →δύναμαι
dýnamai · doo'-nam-ahee
4 times translated as this KJV form195 total Strong's occurrences
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: Luke 16:2Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 7:21
Open full G1410 profile →ἀπαλλάσσω
apallássō · ap-al-las'-so
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to change away, i.e. release, (reflexively) remove
Strong's KJV usage: :--deliver, depart.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 12:58Strong's last: Luke 12:58
Open full G525 profile →βλέπω
blépō · blep'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form148 total Strong's occurrences
to look at (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--behold, beware, lie, look (on, to), perceive, regard, see, sight, take heed.
Strong's first: Revelation 3:18Strong's last: Revelation 3:18
Open full G991 profile →ἔξεστι
éxesti · ex'-es-tee
1 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
so also ἐξόν ex-on' neuter present participle of the same (with or without some form of G1510 expressed); impersonally, it is right (through the figurative idea of being out in public)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be lawful, let, X may(-est).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 8:37Strong's last: Acts 8:37
Open full G1832 profile →ἔσομαι
ésomai · es'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form220 total Strong's occurrences
will be
Strong's KJV usage: :--shall (should) be (have), (shall) come (to pass), X may have, X fall, what would follow, X live long, X sojourn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ephesians 6:3Strong's last: Ephesians 6:3
Open full G2071 profile →περιβάλλω
peribállō · per-ee-bal'-lo
1 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
to throw all around, i.e. invest (with a palisade or with clothing)
Strong's KJV usage: :--array, cast about, clothe(-d me), put on.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 3:18Strong's last: Revelation 3:18
Open full G4016 profile →πλουτέω
ploutéō · ploo-teh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to be (or become) wealthy (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be increased with goods, (be made, wax) rich.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 3:18Strong's last: Revelation 3:18
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4 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
no direct Strong's tag
The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
no direct Strong's tag
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
no direct Strong's tag
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
no direct Strong's tag
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
English meaning and historical usage.
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may
MAY, noun [Latin Maius.]
1. The fifth month of the year, beginning with January, but the third, beginning with March, as was the ancient practice of the Romans.
2. A young woman.
3. The early part of life.
His may of youth and bloom of lustihood.
MAY, verb intransitive To gather flowers in May-morning.
MAY, verb aux; preterit tense might.
1. To be possible. We say, a thing may be, or may not be; an event may happen; a thing may be done, if means are not wanting.
2. To have physical power; to be able.
Make the most of life you may
3. To have moral power; to have liberty, leave, license or permission; to be permitted; to be allowed. A man may do what the laws permit. He may do what is not against decency, propriety or good manners. We may not violate the laws, or the rules of good breeding. I told the servant he might be absent.
Thou mayest be no longer steward. Luke 16:4.
4. It is used in prayer and petitions to express desire. O may we never experience the evils we dread. So also in expressions of good will. may you live happily, and be a blessing to your country. It was formerly used for can, and its radical sense is the same.
MAY be, it may be, are expressions equivalent to perhaps, by chance, peradventure, that is, it is possible to be.
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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