1581. gamal
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gamal: a camel
Original Word: גָּמָל
Part of Speech: Noun
Transliteration: gamal
Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-mawl')
Short Definition: camels

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from gamal
Definition
a camel
NASB Translation
camel (5), camel's (1), camels (44), camels' (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
גַּמְלִיאֵל proper name, masculine (reward of God) a prince of Manasseh Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:20; Numbers 7:54,59; Numbers 10:23, compare Mishna גמליאל, Palmyrene VogNo. 124, ᵐ5 Γαμαλιήλ Acts 5:34.

גָּמָל

noun masculine Genesis 24:10 9t., feminine & masculine Genesis 32:16 (compare below), camel (Late Hebrew id. Arabic , Ethiopic Assyrian gammalu COTGloss Aramaic גַּמְלָא, ; 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 7t.; plural גְּמַלִּים Genesis 12:16 30t.; construct גְּמַלֵּי Genesis 24:10; suffix גְּמַלָּיךָ Genesis 24:14 3t.; גְּמַלָּיו Genesis 24:20; גְּמַלֵּיהֶם Genesis 37:25 6t.; — 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 ("" 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 t. "" 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; 2Chronicles 9:1; Isaiah 30:6 (׳עַלדַּֿבֶּשֶׁת 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.



Strong's
camel

Apparently from gamal (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing); a camel -- camel.

see HEBREW gamal

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