Word

רָקַם

râqam · H7551 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Thing

Embroidered cloth, needleworkCloth manufacture16 verses

Meanings

embroiderer

Person whose profession it is to sew decorative patterns into cloth

Examples
Exodus 26:36 “You shall also make a curtain for the doorway of the tent of violet, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver.
Exodus 27:16 “And for the gate of the courtyard there shall be a curtain of twenty cubits, of violet, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver, with their four pillars and their four bases.
Exodus 28:39 “And you shall weave the tunic of checkered work of fine linen, and shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of a weaver.
to weave

Causative action by which someone creates beautiful cloth by sewing decorative patterns into it

Examples
Psalm 139:15 My frame was not hidden from You When I was made in secret, And skillfully formed in the depths of the earth;

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: I 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with+ תַּחְתִּיlower 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אׇהֳלִיאָבOholiab 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 1 groups

מַעֲשֶׂהwork, deed 6

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Professions001001003009: Exodus 26:36, 27:16, 28:39, 35:35, and 36:37 all repeatedly credit "the work of a weaver" or "embroiderer," richly and directly attesting the sense of this skilled craft occupation.
Exist002002002005: This lexeme's sense of skillfully bringing a design into being through embroidery connects to this domain, though the sampled citations here (Exodus 26:36; 27:16; 28:39; 35:35; 36:37) attest the occupation itself rather than this coming-into-being sense directly.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רָקַםrâqam · H7551רִקְמָה riqmâh · H7553 · embroidered cloth, needlework, variety of colors · 12×

Also from the root רָקַם

רָגַם râgam · H7275 · to stone · 16×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7551. raqam [רָקַם] verb variegate (Late Hebrew id.; so Arabic , Ethiopic , compare…

H7551. raqam
[רָקַם] verb variegate (Late Hebrew id.; so Arabic , Ethiopic , compare רִקְמָתָא רְקָם, ᵑ7 variegated cloth or skin, Syriac freckles); —
Qal Participle active רֹקֵם, as substantive variegator, worker (weaver) in colours, with ב mater. Exo 38:23, וְר וְחשֵׁב חָרָשׁ ׳מְלֶאכֶת Exo 35:35; especially ר ׳מַעֲשֵׂה variegator's work Exodus 26:69; Exo 27:16; Exo 28:39 = Exo 36:37; Exo 38:18; Exo 39:29 (all P; all with mater. except Exo 28:39).
Pu`al Perfect1singular רֻקַּמְתִּי Psa 139:15 I was skilfully wrought (woven, || סכד Psa 139:13).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Professions8 occurrences Exist1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0