Definition

to enable, i.e. qualify

Etymology

from G2425 (ἱκανός);

Word family

• ἱκανός hikanós

How the KJV renders it

• make able (meet)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.