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King James Dictionary
• Able
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Ability, Able
Webster Dictionary
• Ableness
• Able-Minded
• Able-Bodied
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Ablative
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Able
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Able (or Abel) Thomas
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Able Man
Lexicons
• ܡܨܶܐ
• ܣܳܦ݂ܶܩ
• ܫܟ݁ܰܚ
• διδακτικός
• δύναμαι
• δυνατέω
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• בְּדֵי דַּי, כְּדֵי, , מַדַּי
• חַיִל , חֵילֵךְ
• יָד
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(1):

(superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.

(2):

(superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.

(3):

(superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

(4):

(superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

(5):

(a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.

(6):

(a.) To vouch for.