רִקְמָה riqmah

Hebrew word for “embroidery” · Strong’s H7553 · used 12 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

variegated stuff, embroidered

How it is translated

Glosses given for riqmah in context, with how often each is used:

• multicolored cloth 6
• embroidered material 1
• embroidered materials 1
• variegated color 1
• embroidered robes 1
• variegated plumage 1
• colorful weaving 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 16 (3), Ezekiel 27 (3), Judges 5 (1), 1 Chronicles 29 (1), Psalms 45 (1), Ezekiel 17 (1), Ezekiel 26 (1)

Forms

• ורקמה 4
• רקמה 2
• רקמתים 1
• לרקמות 1
• רקמתך 1
• הרקמה 1
• רקמתם 1
• ברקמה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with riqmah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שֵׁשׁ shesh “linen” 3
• מֶשִׁי meshi “silk” 2
• חָבַשׁ chavash “to saddle/tie” 2
• אַרְגָּמָן argaman “purple” 2
• תְּכֵלֶת tekhelet “blue” 2
• לָבֵשׁ lavash “to clothe” 2
• רֹב rov “abundance” 2
• כָּסָה kasah “to cover” 2
• שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 2
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 2
• ךְ kh “you” 2
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 2

Key verses

The verses using riqmah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Judges 5:30 — Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework,…
• 1 Chronicles 29:2 — Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for…
• Psalms 45:14 — She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
• Ezekiel 16:10 — I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
• Ezekiel 16:13 — Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and…
• Ezekiel 16:18 — And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
• Ezekiel 17:3 — And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the…
• Ezekiel 26:16 — Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe…
• Ezekiel 27:7 — Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered…
• Ezekiel 27:16 — Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine…
• Ezekiel 27:24 — These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.