H7551 רָקַם (râqam) raw-kam'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to weave

Strong's Definition

to variegate color, i.e. embroider; by implication, to fabricate

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: embroiderer, needlework, curiously work.

TWOT Reference: 2216

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to variegate, mix colours

1a) (Qal) variegator (worker in colours) (participle)

1b) (Pual) to be skilfully wrought or woven

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5287 G5307

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

רָקַם (ra.qam) — to weave. 1) to variegate, mix colours 1a) (Qal) variegator (worker in colours) (participle) 1b) (Pual) to be skilfully wrought or woven

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

רקם (H7551)

verb · רִקְמָה

Professions | verb qal | ≈ חָרָשׁ · חשׁב

embroiderer = person whose profession it is to sew decorative patterns into cloth

EXO 26:36 · EXO 27:16 · EXO 28:39 · EXO 35:35 · EXO 36:37 · EXO 38:18 · EXO 38:23 · EXO 39:29

Exist | verb pu'al | ≈ עשׂה

to weave = causative action by which someone creates beautiful cloth by sewing decorative patterns into it

PSA 139:15

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[רָקַם] vb. variegate Qal as subst. variegator, worker (weaver) in colours

Pu. I was skillfully wrought

base

Bible Occurrences (9)

26:36 27:16 28:39 35:35 36:37 38:18 38:23 39:29

139:15

Exodus 26:36

For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn..., and finely spun... linen.

Exodus 27:16

The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits [long], with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn,... and finely spun... linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

Exodus 28:39

You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion... an embroidered sash.

Exodus 35:35

He has filled them with skill... to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn... and fine linen, and as weavers — as artistic designers...... of every kind of craft.

Exodus 36:37

For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn..., and finely spun... linen,

Exodus 38:18

The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard... was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn..., and finely spun linen. [It was] twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high...,

Exodus 38:23

With him [was] Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn... and fine linen.

Exodus 39:29

and the sash of finely spun linen, embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn..., just as the LORD had commanded Moses.