# שַׂק (saq)

Israeli respelling: saq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8242. 46 Old Testament occurrences.

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.)

King James renderings: sack(-cloth, -clothes).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/saq-h8242

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 37:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/34) — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- [Genesis 42:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/25) — Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way…
- [Genesis 42:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/27) — And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
- [Genesis 42:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/35) — And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their fa…
- [Leviticus 11:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/32) — And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin,…
- [Joshua 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/4) — They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and re…
- [2 Samuel 3:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/31) — And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. A…
- [2 Samuel 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/10) — And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon…
- [1 Kings 20:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/31) — And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, pu…
- [1 Kings 20:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/32) — So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith…
- [1 Kings 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sackcl…
- [2 Kings 6:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/30) — And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people l…
- [2 Kings 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/1) — And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of…
- [2 Kings 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/2) — And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah…
- [1 Chronicles 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/16) — And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretc…
- [Nehemiah 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 the…
- [Esther 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 c…
- [Esther 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/2) — And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- [Esther 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/3) — And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and…
- [Esther 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/4) — So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordeca…
- [Job 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/15) — I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
- [Psalms 30:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/13) — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
- [Psalms 69:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/11) — I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
- [Isaiah 3:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/24) — And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair b…
- [Isaiah 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/15/3) — In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weepin…
- [Isaiah 20:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 22:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Isaiah 37:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/1) — And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of…
- [Isaiah 37:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/2) — And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah t…
- [Isaiah 50:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/50/3) — I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
- [Isaiah 58:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/5) — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth…
- [Jeremiah 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/8) — For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
- [Jeremiah 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 lamenta…
- [Jeremiah 48:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/37) — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
- [Jeremiah 49:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/3) — Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for the…
- [Lamentations 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 themsel…
- [Ezekiel 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/18) — They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their…
- [Ezekiel 27:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/31) — And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart a…
- [Daniel 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/8) — Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
- [Joel 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Amos 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jonah 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/5) — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- [Jonah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/6) — For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sa…
- [Jonah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/8) — But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the vi…