Did the Qur'an Permit Camel Meat As "Halal"?

Did the Qur’an permit Muhammad’s audience to eat camel, in contradiction to the Torah as we find it not only in Muhammad’s day, but centuries before from the Dead Sea Scroll copies of the Chumash? If it did, we might be surprised to find that the Qur’an makes use of the actual word for camel (الْجَمَلُ), in addition to other then-known terms for camel and she-camel, when not speaking about matters of diet (e.g. 7.40; 77.33, et al). When it speaks about slaughtering an animal, we are told that al-ibil (الْإِبِلِ), a word which we can find no singular form for (why?) means “camels”.