גָּמָל
gâmâl · gaw-mawl'
a camel
Lexicon
Derivation: apparently from H1580 (גָּמַל) (in the sense of labor or burden-bearing);
a camel
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: camel.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › water, chaos, the mighty deep › authority, the one who leads
To carry, to lift up of water, chaos, the mighty deep of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גָּמָל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
54 occurrences · 54 OT · 0 NT · 46 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and camels5 · 11%
- camels5 · 11%
- upon the camels3 · 6%
- and their camels3 · 6%
- of camels3 · 6%
- his camels2 · 4%
- thy camels2 · 4%
- the camels2 · 4%
- for the camels2 · 4%
- upon camels2 · 4%
- and the camels2 · 4%
- as the camel2 · 4%
- their camels2 · 4%
- of the camels1 · 2%
- water for thy camels1 · 2%
- for all his camels1 · 2%
- and it came to pass, as the camels1 · 2%
- for thy camels1 · 2%
- and, behold, the camels1 · 2%
- the camel1 · 2%
- them in the camel's1 · 2%
- with their camels1 · 2%
- for both they and their camels1 · 2%
- that were on their camels1 · 2%
- that were about their camels1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.