yekhel

HALOT and BDB treat the Aramaic verb as a single lexical item glossed "be able", construed throughout Daniel with a following infinitive, and both register the construction with the preposition l- in the sense "prevail over" at Daniel 7:21. The morphology data behind this corpus tags that occurrence under the Hebrew number H3201 rather than the Aramaic one, so it falls outside the occurrence list classified here and no "prevail" sense is posited for H3202. Rosenthal's grammar of Biblical Aramaic lists the verb among the irregular forms, which accounts for the varied imperfect spellings at Daniel 2:10, Daniel 3:29 and Daniel 5:16 beside the regular participle and perfect. The near-synonym כְּהַל (H3546) is confined in Daniel to competence at reading or interpreting, and Daniel 4:18 juxtaposes the two verbs within a single verse; commentators generally read that pairing as stylistic variation rather than a semantic distinction. The most discussed syntactic question at any occurrence is Daniel 3:17, where the clause may be construed either as a conditional protasis ("if our God whom we serve is able") or as an assertion ("our God whom we serve is able"); commentators on Daniel, Collins and Goldingay among them, weigh the alternatives. That debate concerns clause structure and the theology of the martyrs' reply, not the meaning of the verb, so it does not bear on the sense assignments made here.