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 · שַׂ֖קJacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.Genesis 42:25 · שַׂקּ֔וֹThen Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.Genesis 42:27 · שַׂקּ֗וֹAs one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.Genesis 42:35 · שַׂקֵּיהֶ֔ם · בְּשַׂקּ֑וֹIt happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.Leviticus 11:32 · שָׂ֔קOn whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.Joshua 9:4 · שַׂקִּ֤יםthey also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,2 Samuel 3:31 · שַׂקִּ֔יםDavid said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.2 Samuel 12:16 · בַּשָּׂקDavid therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.2 Samuel 21:10 · הַשַּׂ֜קRizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.1 Kings 20:31 · שַׂקִּ֨יםHis servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”1 Kings 20:32 · שַׂקִּ֨יםSo they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’” He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”1 Kings 21:27 · שַׂ֥ק · בַּשָּׂ֔קIt happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.2 Kings 6:30 · הַשַּׂ֛קIt happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.2 Kings 19:1 · בַּשָּׂ֔קIt happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.2 Kings 19:2 · בַּשַּׂקִּ֑יםHe sent Eliakim, who 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 · בַּשַּׂקִּ֖יםDavid lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.Nehemiah 9:1 · וּבְשַׂקִּ֔יםNow in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.Esther 4:1 · שַׂ֖קNow when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.Esther 4:2 · שָֽׂק׃He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.Esther 4:3 · שַׂ֣קIn every province, wherever 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 · שַׂקּ֛וֹEsther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.Job 16:15 · שַׂ֣קI have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.Psalm 30:11 · שַׂקִּ֑יYou have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,Psalm 35:13 · שָׂ֗קBut as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.Psalm 69:11 · שָׂ֑קWhen I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.Isaiah 3:24 · שָׂ֑קIt shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.Isaiah 15:3 · שָׂ֑קIn their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.Isaiah 20:2 · הַשַּׂק֙at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.Isaiah 22:12 · שָֽׂק׃In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:Isaiah 37:1 · בַּשָּׂ֔קIt happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.Isaiah 37:2 · בַּשַּׂקִּ֑יםHe sent Eliakim, who 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.Isaiah 50:3 · וְשַׂ֖קI clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”Isaiah 58:5 · וְשַׂ֤קIs such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?Jeremiah 4:8 · שַׂקִּ֖יםFor this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.Jeremiah 6:26 · שָׂק֙Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.Jeremiah 48:37 · שָֽׂק׃For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.Jeremiah 49:3 · שַׂקִּ֔יםWail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.Lamentations 2:10 · שַׂקִּ֑יםThe elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.Daniel 9:3 · וְשַׂ֥קI set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.Amos 8:10 · שָׂ֔קI will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.Jonah 3:5 · שַׂקִּ֔יםThe people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.Jonah 3:6 · שַׂ֔קThe news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Jonah 3:8 · שַׂקִּ֗יםbut let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.