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
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H8242 — שַׂק
saq · sackcloth · Hebrew/Aramaic
43 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 37:34 · שַׂ֖קAnd Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.Genesis 42:25 · שַׂקּ֔וֹThen 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 42:27 · שַׂקּ֗וֹAnd 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 42:35 · שַׂקֵּיהֶ֔ם · בְּשַׂקּ֑וֹAnd 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 11:32 · שָׂ֔קAnd 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 9:4 · שַׂקִּ֤יםThey 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;2 Samuel 3:31 · שַׂקִּ֔יםAnd 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 12:16 · בַּשָּׂקDavid therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.2 Samuel 21:10 · הַשַּׂ֜קAnd 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.1 Kings 20:31 · שַׂקִּ֨יםAnd his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.1 Kings 20:32 · שַׂקִּ֨יםSo they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive? he [is] my brother.1 Kings 21:27 · שַׂ֥ק · בַּשָּׂ֔קAnd it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.2 Kings 6:30 · הַשַּׂ֛קAnd it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within upon his flesh.2 Kings 19:1 · בַּשָּׂ֔קAnd 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.2 Kings 19:2 · בַּשַּׂקִּ֑יםAnd he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.1 Chronicles 21:16 · בַּשַּׂקִּ֖יםAnd David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [of Israel, who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.Nehemiah 9:1 · וּבְשַׂקִּ֔יםNow in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.Esther 4:1 · שַׂ֖קWhen 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;Esther 4:2 · שָֽׂק׃And came even before the king’s gate: for none [might] enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.Esther 4:3 · שַׂ֣קAnd 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.Esther 4:4 · שַׂקּ֛וֹSo 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.Job 16:15 · שַׂ֣קI have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.Psalm 30:11 · שַׂקִּ֑יThou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;Psalm 35:13 · שָׂ֗קBut as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.Psalm 69:11 · שָׂ֑קI made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.Isaiah 3:24 · שָׂ֑קAnd 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 · שָׂ֑קIn 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 · הַשַּׂק֙At 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 · שָֽׂק׃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 37:1 · בַּשָּׂ֔קAnd 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 · בַּשַּׂקִּ֑יםAnd 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 · וְשַׂ֖קI clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.Isaiah 58:5 · וְשַׂ֤קIs 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?Jeremiah 4:8 · שַׂקִּ֖יםFor this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.Jeremiah 6:26 · שָׂק֙O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.Jeremiah 48:37 · שָֽׂק׃For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.Jeremiah 49:3 · שַׂקִּ֔יםHowl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.Lamentations 2:10 · שַׂקִּ֑יםThe elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.Daniel 9:3 · וְשַׂ֥קAnd I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:Amos 8:10 · שָׂ֔קAnd I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.Jonah 3:5 · שַׂקִּ֔יםSo the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.Jonah 3:6 · שַׂ֔קFor word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Jonah 3:8 · שַׂקִּ֗יםBut let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.