Râqam — H7551

Definition

verb

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

1. to variegate, mix colours
1. (Qal) variegator (worker in colours) (participle)
2. (Pual) to be skilfully wrought or woven

Usually translated as

needlework, embroiderer, curiously work

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• hypóstasis (G5287)
• hyphantós (G5307)

Occurrences

Râqam occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (8), Psalms (1)

• Exodus 26:36 — And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework (רֹקֵֽם).
• Exodus 27:16 — And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework (רֹקֵ֑ם): and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
• Exodus 28:39 — And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework (רֹקֵֽם).
• Exodus 35:35 — Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer (וְרֹקֵ֞ם), in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
• Exodus 36:37 — And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework (רֹקֵֽם);
• Exodus 38:18 — And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework (רֹקֵ֔ם), of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
• Exodus 38:23 — And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer (וְרֹקֵ֗ם) in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
• Exodus 39:29 — And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework (רֹקֵ֑ם); as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Psalms 139:15 — My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought (רֻ֝קַּ֗מְתִּי) in the lowest parts of the earth.