This verb describes the divine act of making someone sufficient, qualified, or capable for a task they could not accomplish on their own. Paul uses it twice in key theological contexts to express God's enabling work. The root meaning involves bringing someone from inadequacy to sufficiency, from disqualification to authorization. The multilingual glosses reveal a consistent focus on empowerment: Spanish hizo-capaces ('made capable'), French rendre-capable ('render capable'), German fähig-machen ('make able'). This isn't mere encouragement but actual transformation—God doesn't just declare us qualified, He makes us so by His own power working within us.