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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.

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
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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9 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Isaiah 3:24
H8242

And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

Isaiah 15:3
H8242

In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

Isaiah 20:2
H8242

At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12
H8242

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Isaiah 32:11
no direct Strong's tag

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

Isaiah 37:1
H8242

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 37:2
H8242

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 50:3
H8242

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Isaiah 58:5
H8242

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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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.

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