noun · feminine
kamēlas
Strong’sG2574
a camel
stem kamēl-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κάμηλος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ,
[in LXX for גָּמַל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2574 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkam'-ay-los
a "camel"
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King Jamescamel.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
and ἡ (as in Refs 5th c.BC+, camel, Camelus bactrianus and C. dromedarius Refs 4th c.BC+; τοὺς ἔρσενας τῶν κ. Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. ἀμνός a camel-lamb, i.e. young camel, NT+5th c.BC+; compare κάμιλος.
2 ἡ κ. camelry, Refs 5th c.BC+. (Semitic word, cf. Hebrew gāmāl.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kamēlas | kamēlais |
| object accusative | kamēlan4×κάμηλον | kamēlain |
| direct address vocative | kamēlar | kamēlair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kamēlau2×καμήλου | kamēlaiu |
| to, for dative | kamēla | kamēlai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kamēla is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
kamēlan“camel”objectaccusative singular4×
Matthew 19:24palin de legamō vi, eukopoterem atō kamēlan dia trupēmeu rafisau eiserchara ē plousion …… you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of …
Matthew 23:24… tois diulizarōntoir ton kōnōpson tan de kamēlan katapinarōntoir.… out a gnat but swallow a camel.
Mark 10:25eukopoterem atō kamēlan dia tau trumaliau tau rafisau dierchara …It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of …
Luke 18:25eukopoterem gar atō kamēlan dia trēmeu belonau eiserchara ē plousion …Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of …
kamēlau“camel’s”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 3:4… echate tem endumem autou apo trichaiu kamēlau kai zōnan dermatinan peri tan osfuan …John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around …
Mark 1:6kai ate tos Iōannos enduorēntos trichain kamēlau kai zōnan dermatinan peri tan osfuan …John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around …