King James Bible Dictionary - Strongs Number

H8242 - Sackcloth

Strong's No.:	H8242

Hebrew:	שַׂק

Transliteration:	saq

Phonetic:	sak

Word Origin:	From H8264

Bible Usage:	sack ({-cloth} -clothes).

Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine

Strongs Definition:	properly a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run {through}) that {is} coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence a bag (for {grain} etc.)

Brown Driver Biggs Definition:	1. mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking a. sack (for grain) b. sackcloth 1. worn in mourning or humiliation 2. same material spread out to lie on

Bible References: Sackcloth	Gen 37:34 2 Sam 3:31 2 Sam 21:10 1 King 20:31 1 King 20:32 1 King 21:27 1 King 21:27 2 King 6:30 2 King 19:1 2 King 19:2 1 Chr 21:16 Esth 4:1 Esth 4:2 Esth 4:3 Esth 4:4 Job 16:15 Ps 30:11 Ps 35:13 Ps 69:11 Isa 3:24 Isa 15:3 Isa 20:2 Isa 22:12 Isa 37:1 Isa 37:2 Isa 50:3 Isa 58:5 Jer 4:8 Jer 6:26 Jer 48:37 Jer 49:3 Lam 2:10 Ezek 7:18 Ezek 27:31 Dan 9:3 Joel 1:8 Joel 1:13 Amos 8:10 Jon 3:5 Jon 3:6 Jon 3:8

Translation Occurrences:	sack ( 4 ) sackcloth ( 41 ) sackclothes ( 1 ) sacks ( 2 )

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.