Embroidery
רִקְמָהStrong’s H7553riqmah (riq-mah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Riqmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “multicolored cloth”, “embroidered material” and “variegated color”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?”
Meaning
- Variegated stuff, embroidered
How it's translated
- and multicolored cloth 3
- embroidered material 2
- and variegated color 1
- to embroidered robes 1
- multicolored cloth 1
- multicolored cloth your 1
- variegated plumage 1
- multicolored cloth their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 8
- Judges 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 29:2Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
- Psalms 45:14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
- Ezekiel 16:10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
- Ezekiel 16:13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
- Ezekiel 16:18And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
- Ezekiel 17:3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Hebrew dictionary
רִקְמָה riqmah · embroidery
variegated stuff, embroidered
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “embroidery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EMBROID'ERY, noun
Work in gold, silver or silk thread, formed by the needle on cloth, stuffs and muslin, into various figures; variegated needle-work.
- Variegation or diversity of figures and colors; as the natural embroidery of meadows.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.