Hebrew Strong's Lexicon
H8242
Lemma: שָׂק
Transliteration: sak
Definition: from שָׁקַק; 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.)
KJV Definition: sack(-cloth, -clothes)
Verse usage
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Yoel 1:8
NASB
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.
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Yoel 1:13
NASB
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth] And lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.
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Amos 8:10
NASB
"Then I will turn your festivals into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring sackcloth on everyone's loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like [a time of] mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
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Yonas 3:5
NASB
Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.
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Yonas 3:6
NASB
When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered [himself] with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.
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Yonas 3:8
NASB
"But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands.