גָּמָל gamal

Hebrew word for “camel” · Strong’s H1581 · used 54 times in 51 verses

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Meaning

1) camel; 1a) as property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food

How it is translated

Glosses given for gamal in context, with how often each is used:

• camels 46
• camel 7
• belonged to camels 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 24 (15), Genesis 31 (2), Genesis 32 (2), Judges 8 (2), Job 1 (2), Jeremiah 49 (2), Genesis 12 (1), Genesis 30 (1), Genesis 37 (1), Exodus 9 (1)

Forms

• גמלים 10
• הגמלים 10
• וגמלים 6
• הגמל 5
• גמליהם 5
• גמליך 2
• לגמליך 2
• לגמלים 2
• וגמליהם 2
• ולגמליהם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gamal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חֲמוֹר chamor “donkey” 12
• צֹאן tson “flock” 13
• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 8
• מִקְנֶה miqneh “livestock” 6
• אָתוֹן aton “she-ass” 5
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 9
• מְאֹד meod “much” 7
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 9
• שָׁאַב shaav “to draw” 4
• רֹב rov “abundance” 5
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 6
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 6

Key verses

The verses using gamal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 24:10 — And 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…
• Genesis 24:35 — And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and…
• Genesis 32:7 — Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
• Genesis 37:25 — And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing…
• Judges 7:12 — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without…
• 1 Samuel 15:3 — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and…
• 2 Chronicles 9:1 — And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels…
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Job 42:12 — So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,…
• Isaiah 30:6 — The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they…
• Isaiah 60:6 — The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they…
• Jeremiah 49:29 — Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.