Lexicon :: Strong's H2296 - ḥāḡar

“Then you answered and said to me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God has commanded us.’ So you [fn]equipped every man with weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.

Then from the [tribal] family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out.

Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD, as a child dressed in a linen ephod [a sacred item of priestly clothing].

Then David said to Joab and to all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier.

“Foreigners lose heart;

They come trembling out of their strongholds.

Now all the Moabites heard that the [three] kings had come up to fight against them, and all [fn]who were able to put on armor, as well as those who were older, were summoned and stood [together in battle formation] at the border.

Then he said to Gehazi, “[fn]Gird up your loins (prepare now!) and take my staff in your hand, and go [to the woman’s house]; if you meet any man [along the way], do not greet him and if a man greets you, do not [stop to] answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the boy [as soon as you reach the house].”

Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “[fn]Gird up your loins (prepare for action), take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead.

Strap Your sword on Your thigh, O mighty One,

In Your splendor and Your majesty!

The pastures of the wilderness drip [with dew],

And the hills are encircled with joy.

For the wrath of man shall praise You;

With a remnant of wrath You will clothe and arm Yourself.

Let it be to him as a robe with which he covers himself,

And as a sash with which he is constantly bound.

She equips herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task]

And makes her arms strong.

In their streets they have wrapped themselves with sackcloth;

On their [flat] housetops and in their open squares

Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,

To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].

Tremble, you women who are carefree;

Tremble with fear, you complacent ones!

Strip, undress and wear sackcloth on your waist [in grief],

“For this reason, put on sackcloth [for mourning],

Lament (mourn with expressions of grief for the dead) and wail,

For the fierce anger of the LORD

Has not turned back from us.”

O daughter of my people [says Jeremiah],

Clothe yourself in sackcloth and wallow in ashes;

Mourn [aloud] as for an only son,

A most bitter cry [of sorrow and regret],

For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us [on both prophet and people].

“Wail, O [fn]Heshbon, for Ai [in Ammon] has been destroyed!

Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah!

Wrap yourselves with sackcloth and lament (cry out in grief),

And rush back and forth inside the enclosures;

For Malcam [your powerless god] will go into exile

Together with his priests and his princes.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion

Sit on the ground keeping silent;

They have thrown dust on their heads,

They have covered themselves with sackcloth.

The virgins of Jerusalem

Have bowed their heads to the ground.

“And they will make themselves [completely] bald for you

And wrap themselves in sackcloth;

And in bitterness of soul they will weep for you

With bitter mourning and wailing.

Wail like a virgin [bride] clothed with [fn]sackcloth

For the bridegroom of her youth [who has died].

Clothe yourselves with sackcloth

And lament (cry out in grief), O priests;

Wail, O ministers of the altar!

Come, spend the night in sackcloth [and pray without ceasing],

O ministers of my God,

For the grain offering and the drink offering

Are withheld from the house of your God.