Strong's Hebrew · H7551
H7551 râqam
רָקַם
raw-kam'
to weave
râqam appears 9 times in Scripture, in Exodus and Psalms. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to variegate color, i.e. embroider; by implication, to fabricate
In the King James Version
embroiderer, needlework, curiously work.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 9 times in Scripture
“and the sash of finely spun linen, embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.”
“You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.”
“For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.”
“With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine 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.”
“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,”
“The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,”
“My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
