Ability
Bible Usage:
- ability used 7 times.
- First Reference: Leviticus 27:8
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 4:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1767 Used 1 time
- H3581 Used 2 times
- H5381 Used 1 time
- G1411 Used 1 time
- G2479 Used 1 time
- G5100 Used 1 time
ABIL'ITY, noun [Latin habilitas, ableness, fitness, from habeo, to have or hold.]
1. Physical power, whether bodily or mental; natural or acquired; force of understanding; skill in arts or science. ability is active power, or power to perform; as opposed to capacity, or power to receive. In the plural, abilities is much used in a like sense; and also for faculties of the mind, and acquired qualifications.
2. Riches, wealth, substance, which are the means, or which furnish the power, of doing certain acts.
They gave after their ability to the work. Ezra 2:69.
3. Moral power, depending on the will - a metaphysical and theological sense.
4. Civil or legal power, the power or right to do certain things, as an ability to transfer property or dispose of effects - ability to inherit. It is opposed to disability.
Bible Usage:
- ability used 7 times.
- First Reference: Leviticus 27:8
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 4:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1767 Used 1 time
- H3581 Used 2 times
- H5381 Used 1 time
- G1411 Used 1 time
- G2479 Used 1 time
- G5100 Used 1 time