Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8242: שַׂק (saq) Definition

Strong's number
H8242
Lemma
שַׂק
Transliteration
saq
Pronunciation
sak
Strong's definition
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.) sack(-cloth, -clothes). from H8264 (שָׁקַק);

46 instances of the word שַׂק saq (H8242)


  • Lamentations 2:10 - sit to the ground and keep silence The elders of the daughter of Zion they have cast up dust their heads they have girded themselves with sackcloth hang down to the ground their heads the virgins of Jerusalem

  • Leviticus 11:32 - doth fall And upon whatsoever any of them when they are dead and it shall be unclean whatsoever vessel of wood or raiment or skin or sack whatsoever vessel is done it be wherein any work into water it must be put and it shall be unclean until the even so it shall be cleansed

  • Nehemiah 9:1 - day Now in the twenty and fourth of this month were assembled the children of Israel with fasting and with sackclothes and earth

  • Psalms 30:11 - Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness

  • Psalms 35:13 - But as for me when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth I humbled with fasting my soul and my prayer into mine own bosom returned

  • Psalms 69:11 - I made also my garment sackcloth and I became a proverb