TBESH · H1581
גָּמָל · ga.mal · camel
1) camel 1a) as property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food
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ga.mal H1581
גָּמָל (ga.mal) means “camel” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
גָּמָל Hebrew · H1581 54 tagged occurrences in 51 verses
Pronunciation guide: gaw-mawl' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
apparently from H1580 (גָּמַל) (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing); a camel
KJV glosses: camel.
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How translators render H1581
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| camels | 15 |
| the camels | 7 |
| and camels | 4 |
| and their camels | 2 |
| for your camels | 2 |
| of camels | 2 |
| of their camels | 2 |
| the camel | 2 |
| their camels | 2 |
| with camels | 2 |
| your camels | 2 |
| and the camels | 1 |
| for camels | 1 |
| for the camels | 1 |
| he made the camels | 1 |
| her camel | 1 |
| his camels | 1 |
| of her camel | 1 |
| on camels | 1 |
| their camels for themselves | 1 |
| to the camels | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| camels | 6 |
| and camels | 5 |
| and their camels | 3 |
| of camels | 3 |
| the camel | 3 |
| upon the camels | 3 |
| and the camels | 2 |
| for the camels | 2 |
| for thy camels | 2 |
| his camels | 2 |
| the camels | 2 |
| thy camels | 2 |
| upon camels | 2 |
| about their camels | 1 |
| and behold the camels | 1 |
| and it came to pass as the camels | 1 |
| and on camels | 1 |
| both they and their camels | 1 |
| camel | 1 |
| for all his camels | 1 |
| for camels | 1 |
| of the camel | 1 |
| of the camels | 1 |
| of their camels | 1 |
| on their camels | 1 |
| over the camels | 1 |
| their camels | 1 |
| them in the camels | 1 |
| with camels | 1 |
| with their camels | 1 |
Verses containing H1581
Page 1 of 2. 51 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 12:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Genesis 24:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
Read word by word - Genesis 24:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.”
Read word by word - Genesis 24:32
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:46
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:61
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:63
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:64
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
Read word by word - Genesis 30:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.
Read word by word - Genesis 31:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
Read word by word - Genesis 31:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 32:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.8
- Genesis 32:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.16
- Genesis 37:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Exodus 9:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,
Read word by word - Judges 6:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Judges 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Judges 8:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Judges 8:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 27:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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,
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 30:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 10:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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?’”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 5:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They seized the livestock of the Hagrites—50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took 100,000 captives,
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 12:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.41
- 1 Chronicles 27:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 9:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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. And she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was on her mind.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 14:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and carried off many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 14.14
- Ezra 2:67
· BSB · 1 occurrence
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:69
· BSB · 1 occurrence
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.68
- Job 1:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Job 1:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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!”
Read word by word - Job 42:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 21:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 30:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 60:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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!’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 25:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
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