'Able' in the Bible

Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I'll die.

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

"If Esau attacks one camp," he thought, "then the other camp will be able to escape."

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers, and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting to do so.)

Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, so he cried out, "Make everyone go out from my presence!" No one remained with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Now Israel's eyes were failing because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph brought his sons near to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.