Ezekiel 16:18:3Ezek.16.18.W3TAB
רִקְמָתֵ֖ךְ
rikmatekh
“your embroidery”
- Transliteration
- rik-ma-TEKH
- Extended
- rihk-mah-TEHKh
- IPA
- /riq.maːˈteːx/
Meaning by language
- English
- your embroidery
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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Word in context
- word
rik-ma-TEKH
- phraseyour reading level
et-big-DE rik-ma-TEKH
- clause
va-tik-KHI et-big-DE rik-ma-TEKH va-te-kha-SIM
- sentence
va-tik-KHI et-big-DE rik-ma-TEKH va-te-kha-SIM ve-sham-NI u-ke-tar-TI na-ta-TI na-TAT lif-ne-HEM
Exegesis
The accusative marker et {אֶת־ | ʾet} precedes the construct phrase bigdei riqmāteikh {בִּגְדֵי רִקְמָתֵךְ | big-dê riq-mā-ṯêkh} ‘garments of your embroidery,’ linking a masculine plural head noun to a feminine singular possessive suffix.
Root and etymology
r-q-mresh–qof–mem
“to embroider”
In context — Ezekiel 16:18
And you took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you placed my oil and my incense before them.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:18:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 16:18, so the Hebrew word רִקְמָתֵ֖ךְ (rikmatekh) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Ezek.16.18.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.18.W3.S1) and character.