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Lexicon :: Strong's G4526 - sakkos

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σάκκος
Transliteration
sakkos (Key)
Pronunciation
sak'-kos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin שַׂק (H8242)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:56,995

Strong’s Definitions

σάκκος sákkos, sak'-kos; of Hebrew origin (H8242); "sack"-cloth, i.e. mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief):—sackcloth.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G4526 in the following manner: sackcloth (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G4526 in the following manner: sackcloth (4x).
  1. a sack

    1. a receptacle for holding or carrying various things, as money, food, etc.

    2. a course cloth, a dark course stuff made especially from the hair of animals

    3. a garment of the like material, and clinging to the person like a sack, which was wont to be worn (or drawn over the tunic instead of the cloak or mantle) by mourners, penitents, suppliants and also by those who like the Hebrew prophets, lead an austere life

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σάκκος sákkos, sak'-kos; of Hebrew origin (H8242); "sack"-cloth, i.e. mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief):—sackcloth.
STRONGS G4526:
σάκκος (Attic σάκος), σάκκου, , Hebrew שַׂק (cf. Fremdwörter, under the word), a sack (Latinsaccus) i. e.
a. a receptacle made for holding or carrying various things, as money, food, etc. (; Leviticus 11:32).
b. a coarse cloth (Latincilicium), a dark coarse stuff made especially of the hair of animals (A. V. sackcloth): Revelation 6:12; a garment of the like material, and clinging to the person like a sack, which was usually worn (or drawn on over the tunic instead of the cloak or mantle) by mourners, penitents, suppliants, Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13, and also by those who, like the Hebrew prophets, led an austere life, Revelation 11:3 (cf. what is said of the dress of John the Baptist, Matthew 3:4; of Elijah, 2 Kings 1:8). More fully in Winers RWB under the word Sack; Roskoff in Schenkel 5:134; (under the word in B. D.; also in McClintock and Strong. (From Herodotus down.))
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
11:32
2 Kings
1:8
Matthew
3:4; 11:21
Luke
10:13
Revelation
6:12; 11:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4526 matches the Greek σάκκος (sakkos),
which occurs 49 times in 47 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34 - So Jacob tore his clothes, and put on a sackcloth undergarment over his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:25 - Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, but also to return every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And that is what was done for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:35 -

Now it came about, as they were emptying their sacks, that behold, every man’s bag of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bags of money, they were afraid.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - ‘Also anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead becomes unclean, including any wooden article, or clothing, or a hide, or a sack—any article [fn]of which use is made—it shall be put in the water and be unclean until evening, then it becomes clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:4 - but they on their part acted craftily and went and took provisions for a journey, and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins that were worn out, split open, and patched,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David therefore pleaded with God for the child; and David fasted and went and lay all night on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 -

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until [fn]it rained on them from the sky; and she [fn]allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the wild animals by night.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 -

But his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let’s put sackcloth [fn]around our waists and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will let [fn]you live.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32 - So they put sackcloth [fn]around their waists and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let [fn]me live.’” And Ahab said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 -

Yet it came about, when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put [fn]on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes—and he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth [fn]underneath on his [fn]body.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:1 -

Now when King Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:2 - Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the household, with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - Then David raised his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 -

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel assembled with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 -

When Mordecai learned of everything that had been done, [fn]he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2 - And he came as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and mourning rites; and many had sackcloth and ashes spread out as a bed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 -

Then Esther’s attendants and her eunuchs came and informed her, and the queen was seized by great fear. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he would remove his sackcloth from him, but he did not accept them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 -

“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin,

And thrust my horn in the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:11 -

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me;

You have untied my sackcloth and encircled me with joy,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 -

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;

I humbled my soul with fasting,

But my prayer kept returning to [fn]me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:11 -

When I made sackcloth my clothing,

I became a proverb to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24 -

Now it will come about that instead of balsam oil there will be a stench;

Instead of a belt, a rope;

Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;

Instead of fine clothes, a robe of sackcloth;

And branding instead of beauty.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 -

In their streets they have put on sackcloth;

On their housetops and in their public squares

Everyone is wailing, [fn]overcome with weeping.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:2 - at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, going naked and barefoot.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:12 -

Therefore on that day the Lord [fn]GOD of armies called you to weeping, to wailing,

To shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:11 -

Tremble, you women who are at ease;

Be troubled, you complacent daughters;

Strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:1 -

Now when King Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:2 - Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the household, with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:3 -

“I clothe the heavens with blackness,

And make sackcloth their covering.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 -

“Is it a fast like this that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself?

Is it for bowing [fn]one’s head like a reed

And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?

Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 -

“For this, put on sackcloth,

Mourn and wail;

For the fierce anger of the LORD

Has not turned away from us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26 -

Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth

And roll in ashes;

[fn]Mourn as for an only son,

A most bitter mourning.

For suddenly the destroyer

Will come against us.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:37 - “For every head is shaved bald, and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands, and sackcloth around the waists.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 -

“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed!

Cry out, daughters of Rabbah,

Put on sackcloth and mourn,

And move about inside the walls;

For [fn]Malcam will go into exile

Together with his priests and his leaders.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 -

The elders of the daughter of Zion

Sit on the ground and [fn]are silent.

They have thrown dust on their heads;

They have put on sackcloth.

The virgins of Jerusalem

Have bowed their heads to the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:18 - ‘They will put on sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and a [fn]bald patch on all their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - So I gave my [fn]attention to the Lord God, to seek Him by prayer and pleading, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 -

Wail like a virgin clothed with sackcloth

For the groom of her youth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13 -

Put on sackcloth

And mourn, you priests;

Wail, you ministers of the altar!

Come, spend the night in sackcloth,

You ministers of my God,

For the grain offering and the drink offering

Have been withheld from the house of your God.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 -

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning,

And all your songs into songs of mourning;

And I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist,

And [fn]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.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 -

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.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6 - When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his robe from himself, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the [fn]dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - “But every person and animal must be covered with sackcloth; and people are to call on God vehemently, and they are to turn, each one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands.
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