Camel
kam'-el (gamal; kamelos; bekher, and bikhrah (Isa 60:6; Jer
2:23 "dromedary," the American Revised Version, margin
"young camel"), rekhesh (1 Ki 4:28; see HORSE), kirkaroth
(Isa 66:20, "swift beasts," the American Standard Revised
ersion. "dromedaries"); bene ha-rammakhim (Est 8:10, "young
dromedaries," the American Standard Revised Version "b...
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-Herds of
Ge 12:16; 24:35; 30:43; 1Sa 30:17; 1Ch 27:30; Job
1:3,17;
Isa 60:6
-Docility of
Ge 24:11
-Uses of
For riding
Ge 24:10,61,64; 31:17
Posts
Es 8:10,14; Jer 2:23
Drawing chariots
Isa 21:7
For carrying burdens
Ge 24:10; 37:25; 1Ki 10:2; 2Ki 8:9; 1Ch 12:40; Isa
30:6
For cavalry
1Sa 30:17
For milk
Ge 32:15
-Forbidden as food
...
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The species of camel which was in common use among the Jews
and the heathen nations of Israel was the Arabian or one-
humped camel, Camelus arabicus. The dromedary is a swifter
animal than the baggage-camel, and is used chiefly for
riding purposes; it is merely a finer breed than the other.
The Arabs call it the heirie. The speed, of the dromed...
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from the Hebrew _gamal_, "to repay" or "requite," as the
camel
does the care of its master. There are two distinct
species of
camels, having, however, the common characteristics
of being
"ruminants without horns, without muzzle, with
nostrils forming
oblique slits, the upper lip divided and separately
movable and
extensile, the soles of t...
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gamal. A ruminant animal, the chief means of communication
between places separated by sandy deserts in Asia, owing to
its amazing powers of endurance. The "ship of the desert,"
able to go without food, and water for days, the cellular
stomach containing a reservoir for water, and its fatty hump
a supply of nourishment; and content with such c...
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Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and
the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not
the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you....
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And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in
these tents, as this plague....
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Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of them that divide the hoof: [as] the camel, because he
cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean
unto you....
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Camel, a prominent domestic animal of the East without the existence of which life in the Arabian deserts would be impossible. It was perhaps the first beast of burden applied to the service of man. It is mentioned as such in the Biblical records as early as the time of Abraham. It constituted a great element in the riches of the early patriarchs. ...
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