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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Sackcloth
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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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Genesis
11 verses
2 Samuel
22 verses
1 Kings
43 verses
2 Kings
33 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
Esther
44 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Isaiah
99 verses
Jeremiah
44 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Joel
22 verses
Amos
11 verses
Jonah
33 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Revelation
22 verses
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שַׂק
saq · sak
41 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H8242 profile →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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H8242
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
H8242
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
H8242
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
H8242
So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
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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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