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Lexicon :: Strong's G4526 - sakkos

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34 - And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:25 - Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus was it done unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 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, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:4 - they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 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. And king David followed the bier.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 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 was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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 Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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 sackcloth, and went softly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes (now he was passing by upon the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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 Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:2 - And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 - Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 - Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2 - and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 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 weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 - And Esther’s maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he received it not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 -
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
And have laid my horn in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:11 -
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing;
Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 -
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth:
I afflicted my soul with fasting;
And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:11 -
When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24 - And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:2 - at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:12 - And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:11 - Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 the prophet the son of Amoz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:3 - I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:37 - For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 -
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;
They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth:
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 - Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13 - Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:6 - And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
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