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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Sackcloth

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

46exact KJV occurrences 42Old Testament 4New Testament 19books containing the word 2mapped Strong's IDs 45occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 11:3

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where sackcloth appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH8242
שַׂק

saq · sak

41 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: sack(-cloth, -clothes).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 37:34Strong's last: Jonah 3:8

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GreekG4526
σάκκος

sákkos · sak'-kos

4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

"sack"-cloth, i.e. mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief)

Strong's KJV usage: :-- sackcloth.

Strong's first: Matthew 11:21Strong's last: Revelation 11:3

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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2 Samuel 3:31
H8242

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

2 Samuel 21:10
H8242

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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sackcloth

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.

Esther 4:1. Job 16:15.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.