embroidery
riq.mah denotes decorated textile work, appearing on garments, cloth, trade goods, and spoil in the supplied verses.
The attested use centers on decorated textile material, especially as part of garments and cloth: it occurs among prepared valuables, clothing, market goods, and spoils. The same use also appears in the description of an eagle’s plumage and in a plural form in Psalm 45:15, where the translation does not isolate its contribution.
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Decorated textile material and garments · dominant
The singular noun occurs among materials prepared for God’s house in 1 Chronicles 29:2 and among clothing in Ezekiel 16:10. In Ezekiel 16:18 its construct form is used in the clause that the APB renders, “You took your embroidered garments and covered the images with them”; Ezekiel 26:16 likewise places it with garments removed by the sea princes. It also occurs among traded cloth and valuable wares in Ezekiel 27:7 and among the spoil divided in Judges 5:30.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the term with “embroidery,” “embroidered cloth,” or “embroidered garments,” including trade and spoil contexts. In Psalm 45:15 the plural form is present, but the translation’s wording does not isolate a corresponding English expression.