Camel
גָּמָלStrong’s H1581gamal (ga-mal)
Appears in 51 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gamal is the Hebrew word usually translated “camels”, “camel” and “camels their”. It appears in 51 verses of the Old Testament.
“And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.”
Meaning
- Camelas property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food
How it's translated
- camels 11
- the camels 9
- and camels 6
- the camel 5
- camels their 5
- camels your 2
- for camels your 2
- and camels their 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 22
- Judges 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Job 3
- Isaiah 3
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 12:16And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
- Genesis 24:10And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
- Genesis 24:11And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:14And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
- Genesis 24:19And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
- Genesis 24:20And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
All 51 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
גָּמָל gamal · camel
1) camel 1a) as property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “camel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAMEL, noun
- A large quadruped used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens, and for riders.
- In Holland, camel [or Kameel, as Coxe writes it, ] is a machine for lifting ships, and bearing them over the Pampus, at the mouth of the river Y, or over other bars.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.