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HebrewH1581Noun

גָּמָל

ga.mal

46Occurrences
H1581Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a camel

apparently from H1580 (גָּמַל) (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. camel 1a) as property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

גָּמָל appears 46 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
20
Judges
4
1 Samuel
3
Isaiah
3
Job
3
1 Chronicles
2
Jeremiah
2
1 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 27:30BSB

Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels.Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.

Exodus 9:3BSB

then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

Genesis 24:22BSB

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

Genesis 24:64BSB

And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

Judges 7:12BSB

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.