What Does Exodus 28:39 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew craft-word for this sash’s needlework is also used for the body’s hidden formation: the body itself is described as embroidered.
THE MEANING
The tunic, headpiece, and sash each carry a distinct kind of making: patterned work, wrapping, and embroidery. The verse holds the visible covering and the skilled work that shapes it together.
THE ROOT
מַעֲשֵׂה רֹקֵם
ma'aseh roqem
GROWS FROM
ר־ק־ם
To embroider: to create patterned work by stitching.
“needlework” in this verse is ma'aseh roqem. The sash is called the “work of an embroiderer,” and Psalm 139:15 uses this same root for being “curiously wrought” in secret. One Hebrew craft-root names both the patterned covering and the body’s hidden formation.
ALSO GROWS
roqem: Embroiderer; one who makes embroidered work.
רֹקֵם
This is the craft-word in the verse’s phrase for the sash’s needlework.
ruqqamti: “I was embroidered” or “I was intricately wrought” (Psalm 139:15).
רֻקַּמְתִּי
The same root describes the speaker’s formation in secret, connecting embroidered cloth with the body’s hidden making.
riqmah: Embroidery or embroidered work (Ezekiel 16:10).
רִקְמָה
This form names an embroidered covering, another place where the root’s patterned work appears on the body.
THE PATTERN
Clothing in Scripture can carry skilled work that makes an inner formation visible on the body.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.I 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.And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.THE THREAD
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Psalm 139:15 uses the same root ר־ק־ם (r-q-m; rāqam), “to embroider,” for the speaker’s formation in secret. The root links the patterned sash at the body’s waist with the hidden shaping of the body itself.
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