1. camel — The noun κάμηλος referring to the domesticated camel, used both in the 'camel through the eye of a needle' proverb (Matt 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25) and in descriptions of John the Baptist's clothing made of camel hair (Matt 3:4; Mark 1:6). Also used in Jesus's saying about straining out a gnat but swallowing a camel (Matt 23:24). All three clusters represent the same animal referent with identical multilingual translations: eng 'camel', spa 'camello', hin ऊंट/ऊँट/ओओन्त, arb جَمَلٌ/الْإِبِلِ, kor 낙타, swa 'ngamia'. The clusters differ only in grammatical case (accusative vs genitive), not meaning. 6×
AR["الإِبِلِ","الجَمَلَ","الْإِبِلِ","جَمَلٌ"]·ben["উট","উটকে","উটকের","উটের,","উটের-পক্ষে"]·DE["Kamel","κάμηλον","καμήλου"]·EN["a-camel","camel","for-a-camel","of-camel"]·FR["chameau"]·heb["גָּמָל","לְ-גָּמָל","לְ-גָמָל"]·HI["ऊँट-का","ऊँट-के","ऊंट","ऊंट-को","ओओन्त-क"]·ID["unta","unta,"]·IT["cammello"]·jav["unta","unta,"]·KO["낙타-가","낙타-의","낙타가","낙타는"]·PT["camelo","de-camelo","de-camelo,"]·RU["верблюда","верблюду"]·ES["a-camello","camello","de-camello"]·SW["kupitia","ngamia","wakimeza","ya-ngamia,","za-ngamia"]·TR["deve","devenin","devenin,","deveyi"]·urd["اونٹ","اونٹ-کا","اونٹ-کو","اونٹ-کے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
κάμηλος [ᾰ], ὁ 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.)