rakam · embroider

What it means

rakam (רָקַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “embroider”.

Weave with colored threads; also form, shape skillfully (Psalm 139:15).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To decorate cloth with colored threads.
2. To fashion skillfully, like the body in secret.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• embroiderer ×8
• embroidered ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Psalms×1

• Exodus 26:36

  You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 28:39

  You shall weave the tunic of fine linen, and make a turban of fine linen, and a sash you shall make, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 35:35

  He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all the work of the engraver, and of the designer, and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, doers of every work and devisers of designs.

• Exodus 36:37

  And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen, the work of an embroiderer,

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:23

  And with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a designer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen.

• Exodus 39:29

  and the sash of twisted fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of an embroiderer, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Psalms 139:15

  My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, embroidered in the depths of the earth.