BROIDERED

broid'-erd: (1) riqmah, "variegation of color" (Ezekiel 16:10,13,18; 26:16; 27:7,16,24); (2) tashbets, "checkered stuff" (as reticulated). The high priest's garments consisted of "a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat (Exodus 28:4 the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) "a coat of checker work"), a miter, and a girdle"; (3) plegma, "twined or plaited work" (1 Timothy 2:9 the King James Version).

See BRAIDED; BRAIDING ; EMBROIDERY .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.