Strong's Hebrew · H1581
גָּמָל
gâmâl · gaw-mawl'
camel.
Definition
a camel
Derivation
apparently from H1580 (גָּמַל) (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing);
Appears 54 times in Scripture
“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.”
“30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.”
“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.””
“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.”
“After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.””
“He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).