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Hebrew noun · H1581

גָּמָל

gamalgaw-mawl'

camel

54 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gâmâl

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1581is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 17 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 46
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1581

a camel

The King James renders it: camel.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

gamal is rendered "camel". It stands 54 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.

  • Twenty-five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 12:16He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-six different ways.

The first use

He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

Genesis 12:16וּגְמַלִּֽים׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-five of the word's fifty-four uses are in Genesis.

The other 22 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • camels10
  • the camels10
  • and camels6
  • camels their5
  • the camel5
  • and camels their2
  • and to camels their2
  • camels your2
  • for camels your2
  • a camel1
  • and on the camels1
  • and the camels1

and 7 more, 54 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

גָּמַלgamalto weanUses37
גָּמַרgamarto ceaseUses5
גָּמָאgamato swallowUses2

All 54, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

46 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַגְּמַלִּ֖ים3
  • גָּמָ֑ל2
  • גְמַלֵּיהֶֽם׃2
  • גְּמַלֶּ֖יךָ2
  • הַ֠גָּמָל2
  • הַגְּמַלִּים֙2
  • וּגְמַלִּ֖ים2
  • בַּגְּמַלִּ֔ים1
  • גְמַלֵּיהֶ֜ם1
  • גְּֽמַלֵּיהֶ֞ם1
  • גְּמַ֨לֵּיהֶ֔ם1
  • גְּמַלָּֽיו׃1

and 34 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine or feminine plural10HNcbpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine plural10HTd/Ncbpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine plural6HC/Ncbpa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural5HNcmpc/Sp3mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular5HTd/Ncbsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine plural3HRd/Ncbpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular2HNcbsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HR/Ncmpc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine plural1HC/Rd/Ncbpa

Genesis

twenty-five uses
  • He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

    Genesis 12:16

    • וּגְמַלִּֽים׃ugemalimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and camels
  • Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.

    Genesis 24:10

    • גְמַלִּ֜יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels
    • מִגְּמַלֵּ֤יmigemaleipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from camels of
  • As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

    Genesis 24:11

    • הַגְּמַלִּ֛יםhagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
  • Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

    Genesis 24:14

    • גְּמַלֶּ֖יךָgemaleikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: camels your
  • After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”

    Genesis 24:19

    • לִגְמַלֶּ֙יךָ֙ligmaleikhapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: for camels your
  • And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

    Genesis 24:20

    • גְּמַלָּֽיו׃gemalavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: camels his
  • 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 24:22

    • הַגְּמַלִּים֙hagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
  • As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.

    Genesis 24:30

    • הַגְּמַלִּ֖יםhagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
  • “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

    Genesis 24:31

    • לַגְּמַלִּֽים׃lagemalimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: for the camels
  • So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.

    Genesis 24:32

    • הַגְּמַלִּ֑יםhagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
    • לַגְּמַלִּ֔יםlagemalimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to the camels
  • “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.

    Genesis 24:35

    • וּגְמַלִּ֖יםugemalimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and camels
  • and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.

    Genesis 24:44

    • לִגְמַלֶּ֖יךָligmaleikhapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: for camels your
  • She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

    Genesis 24:46

    • גְּמַלֶּ֖יךָgemaleikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: camels your
    • הַגְּמַלִּ֖יםhagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
  • Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

    Genesis 24:61

    • הַגְּמַלִּ֔יםhagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
  • Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.

    Genesis 24:63

    • גְמַלִּ֖יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels
  • And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

    Genesis 24:64

    • הַגָּמָֽל׃hagamalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the camel
  • Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.

    Genesis 30:43

    • וּגְמַלִּ֖יםugemalimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and camels
  • Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

    Genesis 31:17

    • הַגְּמַלִּֽים׃hagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
  • Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.

    Genesis 31:34

    • הַגָּמָ֖לhagamalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the camel
  • In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

    Genesis 32:7

    • וְהַגְּמַלִּ֖יםvehaggemalimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and the camels
  • 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.

    Genesis 32:15

    • גְּמַלִּ֧יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels
  • And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

    Genesis 37:25

    • וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣םugemaleihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and camels their

Exodus

one use
  • 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.

    Exodus 9:3

    • בַּגְּמַלִּ֔יםbagemalimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: on the camels

Leviticus

one use
  • But of those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

    Leviticus 11:4

    • הַ֠גָּמָלhagamolthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the camel

Deuteronomy

one use
  • But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger.

    Deuteronomy 14:7

    • הַ֠גָּמָלhagamolthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the camel

Judges

four uses
  • For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.

    Judges 6:5

    • וְלִגְמַלֵּיהֶ֖םveligmaleihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and to camels their
  • 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.

    Judges 7:12

    • וְלִגְמַלֵּיהֶם֙veligmaleihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and to camels their
  • Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.

    Judges 8:21

    • גְמַלֵּיהֶֽם׃gemaleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: camels their
  • The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.

    Judges 8:26

    • גְמַלֵּיהֶֽם׃gemaleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: camels their

1 Samuel

three uses
  • Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

    1 Samuel 15:3

    • מִגָּמָ֖לmigamalpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from a camel
  • Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,

    1 Samuel 27:9

    • וּגְמַלִּים֙ugemalimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and camels
  • And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

    1 Samuel 30:17

    • הַגְּמַלִּ֖יםhagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels

1 Kings

one use
  • She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.

    1 Kings 10:2

    • גְּ֠מַלִּיםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels

2 Kings

one use
  • So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

    2 Kings 8:9

    • גָּמָ֑לgamalnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: camel

1 Chronicles

three uses
  • They seized the livestock of the Hagrites—50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took 100,000 captives,

    1 Chronicles 5:21

    • גְּֽמַלֵּיהֶ֞םgemaleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: camels their
  • And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

    1 Chronicles 12:40

    • וּבַגְּמַלִּ֣יםuvaggemalimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and on the camels
  • Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.

    1 Chronicles 27:30

    • הַ֨גְּמַלִּ֔יםhagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was on her mind.

    2 Chronicles 9:1

    • וּ֠גְמַלִּיםugemalimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and camels
  • They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and carried off many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 14:15

    • וּגְמַלִּ֔יםugemalimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and camels

Ezra

one use
  • 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

    Ezra 2:67

    • גְּמַ֨לֵּיהֶ֔םgemaleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: camels their

Nehemiah

one use
  • 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

    Nehemiah 7:69

    • גְּמַלִּ֕יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels

Job

three uses
  • and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

    Job 1:3

    • גְמַלִּ֗יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels
  • While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

    Job 1:17

    • הַגְּמַלִּים֙hagemalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the camels
  • So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

    Job 42:12

    • גְּמַלִּ֔יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels

Isaiah

three uses
  • When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”

    Isaiah 21:7

    • גָּמָ֑לgamalnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a camel
  • This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

    Isaiah 30:6

    • גְּמַלִּים֙gemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels
  • Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.

    Isaiah 60:6

    • גְּמַלִּ֜יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels

Jeremiah

two uses
  • They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’

    Jeremiah 49:29

    • וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֖םugemaleihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and camels their
  • Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 49:32

    • גְמַלֵּיהֶ֜םgemaleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: camels their

Ezekiel

one use
  • I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

    Ezekiel 25:5

    • גְמַלִּ֔יםgemalimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: camels

Zechariah

one use
  • And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

    Zechariah 14:15

    • הַגָּמָ֣לhagamalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the camel

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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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