רָקַם
ra.qam
“to weave”
Definition
to variegate color, i.e. embroider; by implication, to fabricate
a primitive root;
- to variegate, mix colours 1a) (Qal) variegator (worker in colours) (participle) 1b) (Pual) to be skilfully wrought or woven
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Occurrences
רָקַם appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.
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.
You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.
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.
For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,
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