King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7551
Transliteration: raqam
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-kam')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to variegate
Meaning: to variegate color, embroider, to fabricate
Word Summary
raqam: to variegate
Original Word: רָקַםTransliteration: raqam
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-kam')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to variegate
Meaning: to variegate color, embroider, to fabricate
Strong's Concordance
embroiderer, needlework, curiously work A primitive root; to variegate color, i.e. Embroider; by implication, to fabricate -- embroiderer, needlework, curiously work.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7551. raqam
[רָקַם] verb variegate (Late Hebrew id.; so Arabic , Ethiopic , compare רִקְמָתָא רְקָם, ᵑ7 variegated cloth or skin, Syriac freckles); —
Qal Participle active רֹקֵם, as substantive variegator, worker (weaver) in colours, with ב mater. Exodus 38:23, וְר וְחשֵׁב חָרָשׁ ׳מְלֶאכֶת 35:35; especially ר ׳מַעֲשֵׂה variegator's work Exodus 26:69; 27:16; 28:39 = 36:37; 38:18; 39:29 (all P; all with mater. except 28:39).
Pu`al Perfect1singular רֻקַּמְתִּי Psalm 139:15 I was skilfully wrought (woven, "" סכד 139:13).