שַׂק saq

Hebrew word for “sackcloth” · Strong’s H8242 · used 48 times in 46 verses

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Meaning

1) mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking;

How it is translated

Glosses given for saq in context, with how often each is used:

• sackcloth 28
• sackcloths 15
• sack 3
• sacks 2

Where it is used

Also in 7 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Esther 4 (4), Genesis 42 (3), Jonah 3 (3), 1 Kings 20 (2), 2 Kings 19 (2), Isaiah 37 (2), Joel 1 (2), Genesis 37 (1), Leviticus 11 (1), Joshua 9 (1)

Forms

• שׂק 17
• שׂקים 11
• בשׂקים 4
• שׂקו 3
• השׂק 3
• בשׂק 3
• ושׂק 3
• שׂקיהם 1
• בשׂקו 1
• ובשׂקים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with saq more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָגַר chagar “to gird” 12
• קׇרְחָה qorchah “bald spot” 6
• צוֹם tsom “fast” 6
• אֵפֶר epher “ashes” 6
• קָרַע qara “to tear” 7
• כָּסָה kasah “to cover” 8
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 8
• מׇתְנַיִם moten “loin” 6
• מִסְפֵּד misped “mourning” 5
• יָלַל yalal “to wail” 4
• סָפַד saphad “to mourn” 4
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 7

Key verses

The verses using saq that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 37:34 — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
• 1 Kings 21:27 — And 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.
• Nehemiah 9:1 — Now 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 — 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…
• Psalms 30:11 — Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
• Isaiah 20:2 — 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…
• Isaiah 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Jeremiah 6:26 — O 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…
• Lamentations 2:10 — The 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:…
• Daniel 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
• Joel 1:13 — Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and…
• Amos 8:10 — And 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…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.