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Strong's #1581 - גָּמָל
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1) camel
1a) as property, as beast of burden, for riding, forbidden for food
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2070) lmc (גמל GML) AC: Yield CO: ? AB: ?: The ripening of a crop or the weaning of a child as one now able to yield work. Also, the yielding of good or evil as a reward. [from: mc- a gathering of the yield] (eng: camel)
V) lmc (גמל GML) - Yield: To produce or be productive. KJV (37): (vf: Paal, Niphal) wean, reward, bountifully, do, bestow - Strongs: H1580 (גָּמַל)
Nm/f) lmc (גמל GML) - Camel: The produce of the fields were tied in large bundles and transported on camels. [Also related in meaning to the original parent root mcas one who gathers at the watering hole] KJV (54): camel - Strongs: H1581 (גָּמָל)
dm ) lfmc (גמול GMWL) - Yielding: The production of a product as a benefit or reward. KJV (19): recompense, reward, benefit, give, deserve - Strongs: H1576 (גְּמוּל)
df1) elfmc (גמולה GMWLH) - Yielding: The production of a product as a benefit or reward. KJV (3): recompense, deed, reward - Strongs: H1578 (גְּמוּלָה)
idm) lfmct (תגמול TGMWL) - Yield: The production of a product as a benefit or reward. KJV (1): benefit - Strongs: H8408 (תַּגְמוּל)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
גָּמָל
noun masculine Genesis 24:10 9t., feminine & masculine Genesis 32:16 (compare below), camel (Late Hebrew id. Arabic 
, Ethiopic 
Assyrian gammalu COT Gloss Aramaic גַּמְלָא, 
; Palmyrene Tariff plural גמלין Reckend ZMG 1888,401; √גמל but meaning of √ dubious; Bo Hieroz i. 73 derives from גמל requite, so Lag BN 20,49 (camel as μνησίκακος); see also conjectures in MV, Dl in Hpt F. 70 Hpt BAS i. 171; A. see Kremer Semit. Culturentlehn., 2, Hom NS 144ff.) — 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 Chronicles 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) [4t. "" 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; 2 Chronicles 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, ("" מִרְבַּץצאן).
4 forbidden as food Leviticus 11:4 (P) Deuteronomy 14:7.
גָּמָל plur. גְּמַלִּים comm. a camel (Genesis 32:16). This word is found in all the Phœnicio-Shemitic languages; and besides, not only in Greek and Latin, but also in Ægypt. (ϫⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ, ϭⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ) and Sanscr. under the form kramêla, kramélaka. Bochart (Hieroz. i. p. 75, seq.) and others, derive it from גָּמַל to repay, because the camel is an animal μνησίκακος. It is however, more probable that גָּמַל has adopted the signification of the cognate حمل to carry.
