Sackcloth
שַׂקStrong’s H8242saq
Appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saq is the Hebrew word usually translated “sackcloth”, “sack his” and “sacks their”. It appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:”
Meaning
- Mesh, sackcloth, sack, sackingsack (for grain) · sackcloth
How it's translated
- sackcloth 29
- with sackcloth 4
- and sackcloth 3
- sack his 2
- in the sackcloth 2
- in sackcloth 2
- sacks their 1
- in sack his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Genesis 4
- Esther 4
- Jeremiah 4
- 2 Samuel 3
- 1 Kings 3
19 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 42:25Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
- Genesis 42:27And 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.
- Genesis 42:35And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
- Leviticus 11:32And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
- Joshua 9:4They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
All 47 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שַׂק saq · sackcloth
1) mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking 1a) sack (for grain) 1b) sackcloth 1b1) worn in mourning or humiliation 1b2) same material spread out to lie on
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sackcloth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SACK'CLOTH, noun
[sack and cloth.]
Cloth of which sacks are made; coarse cloth. This word is chiefly used in Scripture to denote a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress or mortification.
- “Gird you with sackcloth and mourn before Abner” 2 Samuel 3:31
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.