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Lexicon :: Strong's H1581 - gāmāl

Aa
גָּמָל
Transliteration
gāmāl
Pronunciation
gaw-mawl'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently from גָּמַל (H1580)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 360d

Strong’s Definitions

גָּמָל gâmâl, gaw-mawl'; apparently from H1580 (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing); a camel:—camel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's H1581 in the following manner: camel (54x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's H1581 in the following manner: camel (54x).

  1. camel

    1. as property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גָּמָל gâmâl, gaw-mawl'; apparently from H1580 (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing); a camel:—camel.
STRONGS H1581: Abbreviations
†גָּמָל noun masculine Genesis 24:10 + 9 times, feminine & masculine Genesis 32:16 [Genesis 32:15] (compare below), camel (Late Hebrew id. Arabic جَمَلً (جَمْلً), Ethiopic ግመል፡ Assyrian gammalu COTGloss Aramaic גַּמְלָא, Hmfg; Palmyrene Tariff plural גמלין ReckendZMG 1888, 401; √גמל but meaning of √ dubious; BoHieroz i. 73 derives from גמל requite, so LagBN 20, 49 (camel as μνησίκακος); see also conjectures in MV, Dl in HptF. 70 HptBAS i. 171; A. see KremerSemit. Culturentlehn., 2, HomNS 144 ff.) — absolute גָּמָל Genesis 24:64 + 7 times; plural גְּמַלִּים Genesis 12:16 + 30 times; construct גְּמַלֵּי Genesis 24:10; suffix גְּמַלָּיךָ Genesis 24:14 + 3 times; גְּמַלָּיו Genesis 24:20; גְּמַלֵּיהֶם Genesis 37:25 + 6 times; — camel,
1. as property (in Hexateuch only J) Genesis 12:16 (|| אתנות) Genesis 24:10, 35 (|| חמורים etc.) Genesis 30:43 (|| id.) Genesis 32:8 [Genesis 32:7] (|| צאן, בקר) Exodus 9:3 (Egyptian || סוסים, חמורים, בקר, צאן, etc.) Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12; 1 Samuel 15:3 (|| חמור etc.) 1 Samuel 27:9; 1 Chronicles 5:21; 1 Chronicles 27:30 (all || id.) 2 Chron 14:14 (|| צאן) Ezra 2:67 (|| סוסים, פרדים, חמורים) = Nehemiah 7:68; Job 1:3 (|| צאן, בקר, אתנות) compare Job 1:17; Job 42:12 (|| id.) Jeremiah 49:29 (|| צאן) Jeremiah 49:32; Zechariah 14:15 (|| סוס, חמור, פרד) [4 times || סוס and other words, Exodus 9:3 (Egyptians), Zechariah 14:15 (enemies of Israel), Ezra 2:67 = Nehemiah 7:68 (returned exiles)].
2. as beasts of burden Genesis 24:10 compare Genesis 24:11; Genesis 24:14; Genesis 24:19; Genesis 24:20; Genesis 24:22; Genesis 24:30; Genesis 24:31; Genesis 24:32; Genesis 24:32; Genesis 24:44; Genesis 24:46; Genesis 24:46; Genesis 37:25 (all J), 1 Kings 10:2; 2 Kings 8:9; 1 Chronicles 12:41; 2 Chronicles 9:1; Isaiah 30:6 (עַל־דַּבֶּשֶׁת ג׳), Isaiah 60:6 (|| בִּכְרֵי מִדְיָן).
3. for riding Genesis 24:61, 63, 64 (all J), Genesis 31:17, 34 (both E) 1 Samuel 30:17, compare also Judges 8:21, 26 and particularly Isaiah 21:7 רֶכֶב גמל; a riding-company of camels i.e. a troop of camels with riders; נְרֵה גמלים an abode of camels,in prediction against Ammon Ezekiel 25:5, (|| מִרְבַּץ צאן).
4. forbidden as food Leviticus 11:4 (P) Deuteronomy 14:7.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:16; 12:16; 24:10; 24:10; 24:10; 24:10; 24:11; 24:14; 24:14; 24:19; 24:20; 24:20; 24:22; 24:30; 24:31; 24:32; 24:32; 24:35; 24:44; 24:46; 24:46; 24:61; 24:63; 24:64; 24:64; 30:43; 31:17; 31:34; 32:7; 32:15; 37:25; 37:25

Exodus

9:3; 9:3

Leviticus

11:4

Deuteronomy

14:7

Judges

6:5; 7:12; 8:21; 8:26

1 Samuel

15:3; 27:9; 30:17

1 Kings

10:2

2 Kings

8:9

1 Chronicles

5:21; 27:30

2 Chronicles

9:1; 14:14

Ezra

2:67; 2:67

Nehemiah

7:68; 7:68

Job

1:3; 1:17; 42:12

Isaiah

21:7; 30:6; 60:6

Jeremiah

49:29; 49:32

Ezekiel

25:5

Zechariah

14:15; 14:15

H1581

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1581 matches the Hebrew גָּמָל (gāmāl),
which occurs 54 times in 51 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:16–Eze 25:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31 - And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32 - Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:44 - Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46 - And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:63

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:63 - And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:64

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:64 - And when Rebekah, looking up, saw Isaac, she got down from her camel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:43 - So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:17 - Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25 - Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3 - Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:7 - But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9 - And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:2 - And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels weighted down with spices, and stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:21 - And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:30 - Obil the Ishmaelite had control of the camels and Jehdeiah the Meronothite of the she-asses;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 - Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:15 - And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:67

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:67 - Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:69

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:69 - Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:7 - And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:6 - You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:29 - Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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