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רִקְמָה

riqmâh · H7553 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. embroidered cloth, needlework

    Cloth with decorative patterns sewn into it by hand and therefore expensive; regarded as beautiful and valuable

    Examples

    Judges 5:30 ‘Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoils? A concubine, two concubines for every warrior; To Sisera a spoil of dyed cloth, A spoil of dyed cloth embroidered, Dyed cloth of double embroidery on the neck of the plunderer?’

    Psalm 45:14 She will be brought to the King in colorful garments; The virgins, her companions who follow her, Will be brought to You.

    Ezekiel 16:10 “I also clothed you with colorfully woven cloth and put sandals of fine leather on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

  2. variety of colors

    State in which an object has a variety of color; regarded as beautiful

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 29:2 “Now with all my ability I have provided for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, wood for the things of wood, onyx stones and inlaid stones, stones of antimony and stones of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster in abundance.

    Ezekiel 17:3 saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “A great eagle with great wings, long pinions, and a full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.

How it’s used In 6 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 5 groups

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
Cloth001002005003
Ezekiel 16:10 describes the LORD clothing Jerusalem "with colorfully woven cloth," and Judges 5:30 speaks of "a spoil of dyed cloth embroidered," both directly naming the woven textile this word denotes.
Color002001001014
Ezekiel 16:13 pairs "fine linen, silk, and colorfully woven cloth," and 1 Chronicles 29:2 lists "stones of various colors" alongside it, attesting the multicolored quality the word conveys.
Word family 2 words

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

רָקַם râqam · H7551 · embroiderer, to weave · 9×רִקְמָהriqmâh · H7553
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7553. riqmah רִקְמָה noun feminine variegated stuff (woven or embroidered); — absolute…
H7553. riqmah
רִקְמָה noun feminine variegated stuff (woven or embroidered); — absolute ׳ר Jdg 5:30 +; suffix רִקְמָתֵךְ Eze 16:18, תָם- Eze 26:16; dual רִקְמָתַיִם Jdg 5:30; plural רְקָמוֺת Psa 45:15; — (piece of) variegated stuff, Jdg 5:30 (twice in verse), for garments Eze 16:10, Eze 16:13; Eze 27:16, Eze 27:24; Psa 45:15; explicitly, ר ׳בִּגְדֵי Eze 16:18; Eze 26:16; ׳ר apparently = variegated work Eze 27:7; figurative of variegated plumage Eze 17:3; of variegated stone 1Ch 29:2.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Cloth10 occurrencesColor2 occurrences

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

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