שַׂקsaq
sack, sackcloth
Pronunciation: sak · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8242
Meanings
1. sack (Genesis 42:25; Genesis 42:27; Genesis 42:35)
2. sackcloth
a. worn in mourning and humiliation, either loose garment like sack, or piece of similar material (of rough, dark hair), fastened round body (Genesis 37:34; 1 Kings 20:31; 1 Kings 21:27)
b. ame garment (or material) spread out (to lie on) (2 Samuel 21:10; Isaiah 58:5; Esther 4:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 48 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned deeply for his son for a long time.
- Genesis 42:25 Joseph then ordered his servants to fill the men’s sacks with grain, but he also gave secret instructions to return each brother’s payment at the top of his sack. He also gave them supplies for their journey home.
- Genesis 42:27 But when they stopped for the night and one of them opened his sack to get grain for his donkey, he found his money in the top of his sack.
- Genesis 42:35 As they emptied out their sacks, there in each man’s sack was the bag of money he had paid for the grain! The brothers and their father were terrified when they saw the bags of money.
- Leviticus 11:32 If such an animal dies and falls on something, that object will be unclean. This is true whether the object is made of wood, cloth, leather, or burlap. Whatever its use, you must dip it in water, and it will remain defiled until evening. After that, it will be ceremonially clean and may be used again.
- Joshua 9:4 they resorted to deception to save themselves. They sent ambassadors to Joshua, loading their donkeys with weathered saddlebags and old, patched wineskins.
See every passage
- Genesis 37:34, 42:25, 42:27, 42:35
- Leviticus 11:32
- Joshua 9:4
- 2 Samuel 3:31, 21:10
- 1 Kings 20:31, 20:32, 21:27
- 2 Kings 6:30, 19:1, 19:2
- 1 Chronicles 21:16
- Nehemiah 9:1
- Esther 4:1, 4:2, 4:3, 4:4
- Job 16:15
- Psalms 30:11, 35:13, 69:11
- Isaiah 3:24, 15:3, 20:2, 22:12, 37:1, 37:2, 50:3, 58:5
- Jeremiah 4:8, 6:26, 48:37, 49:3
- Lamentations 2:10
- Ezekiel 7:18, 27:31
- Daniel 9:3
- Joel 1:8, 1:13
- Amos 8:10
- Jonah 3:5, 3:6, 3:8
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).