Strong's #7551: raqam (pronounced raw-kam')

a primitive root; to variegate color, i.e. embroider; by implication, to fabricate:--embroiderer, needlework, curiously work.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râqam

1) to variegate, mix colours

1a) (Qal) variegator (worker in colours) (participle)

1b) (Pual) to be skilfully wrought or woven

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Exodus 26:36: "and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework."
Exodus 27:16: "and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars"
Exodus 28:39: "of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework."
Exodus 35:35: "of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet,"
Exodus 36:37: "and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;"
Exodus 38:18: "And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet,"
Exodus 38:23: "of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet,"
Exodus 39:29: "of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as"
Psalms 139:15: "thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."