Sack
אַמְתַּ֫חַתStrong’s H0572amtachat (am-ta-chat)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amtachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “sack his”, “sacks our” and “sack my”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.”
Meaning
- Sack, flexible container (for grain)
- (TWOT) spread out
How it's translated
- sack his 5
- in sacks our 2
- sacks our 2
- in sack my 1
- sacks your 1
- in sacks your 1
- sacks of 1
- sack of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 12
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 42:28And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
- Genesis 43:12And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
- Genesis 43:18And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
- Genesis 43:21And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
- Genesis 43:22And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
- Genesis 43:23And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
Hebrew dictionary
אַמְתַּ֫חַת amtachat · sack
1) sack, flexible container (for grain) 2) (TWOT) spread out
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sack” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SACK, noun
[Latin saccus. Heb. See the verb to sack ]
- A bag, usually a large cloth bag, used for holding and conveying corn, small wares, wool, cotton, hops, and the like. Genesis 42:25
- The measure of three bushels.
All definitions and other forms of “sack”
SACK, noun
A species of sweet wine, brought chiefly from the Canary isles.
SACK, noun
[Latin sagum, whence Gr. But the word is Celtic or Teutonic.]
SACK, verb transitive
To put in a sac or in bags.
SACK, verb transitive
[From comparing this word and sack a bag, in several languages, it appears that they are both from one root, and that the primary sense is to strain, pull, draw; hence sack a bag, is a tie, that which is tied or drawn together; and sack to pillage, is to pull, to strip, that is, to take away by violence.]
SACK, noun
The pillage or plunder of a town or city; or the storm and plunder of a town; as the sack of Troy.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.