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# רִקְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7553

**variegated stuff** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

variegated stuff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7553/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִקְמָה: n.f. variegated stuff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7553/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. variegated stuff (woven or embroidered);—abs. ר׳ Ju 5:30 +; sf. רִקְמָתֵךְ Ez 16:18, -תָם 26:16; du. רִקְמָתַיִם Ju 5:30; pl. רְקָמוֹת ψ 45:15;—(piece of) variegated stuff, Ju 5:30(×2), for garments Ez 16:10, 13; 27:16, 24 ψ 45:15; explicitly, בִּגְדֵי ר׳ Ez 16:18; 26:16; ר׳ appar. = variegated work 27:7; fig. of variegated plumage 17:3; of variegated stone 1 Ch 29:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: multicolored material (6); \[plumage\] (1); multicolored \[stones\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 45:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.15/#tree)

לִרְקָמוֹת֮ תּוּבַ֪ל לַ֫מֶּ֥לֶךְ בְּתוּל֣וֹת אַ֭חֲרֶיהָ רֵעוֹתֶ֑יהָ מ֖וּבָא֣וֹת לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* to multicolored.material she.is.brought to the king virgins \[are\].behind her companions her.\[female\] \[are.being\].brought to you

*JPS 1917:* She shall be led unto the king on richly woven stuff; the virgins her companions in her train being brought unto thee.

[Ezekiel 16:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.10/#tree)

וָאַלְבִּישֵׁ֣ךְ רִקְמָ֔ה וָאֶנְעֲלֵ֖ךְ תָּ֑חַשׁ וָאֶחְבְּשֵׁ֣ךְ בַּשֵּׁ֔שׁ וַאֲכַסֵּ֖ךְ מֶֽשִׁי׃

*Word for word:* and I clothed.you multicolored.material and I shod.you leather and I wrapped.your.head with.(the) fine linen and I covered.you silk

*JPS 1917:* I clothed thee also with richly woven work, and shod thee with sealskin, and I wound fine linen about thy head, and covered thee with silk.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7553.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7553/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).