שַׂק
saq · sak
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.)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8264 (שָׁקַק);
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.)
- 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.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: sack(-cloth, -clothes).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To consume, to destroy of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׂק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 33 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sackcloth12 · 25%
- with sackcloth6 · 13%
- in sackcloth4 · 8%
- you with sackcloth3 · 6%
- themselves with sackcloth3 · 6%
- himself with sackcloth2 · 4%
- into his sack1 · 2%
- his sack1 · 2%
- their sacks1 · 2%
- was in his sack1 · 2%
- or sack1 · 2%
- sacks1 · 2%
- and, behold, he had sackcloth1 · 2%
- and with sackclothes1 · 2%
- his sackcloth1 · 2%
- my sackcloth1 · 2%
- was sackcloth1 · 2%
- of sackcloth1 · 2%
- the sackcloth1 · 2%
- thee with sackcloth1 · 2%
- them with sackcloth1 · 2%
- and sackcloth1 · 2%
- on sackcloth1 · 2%
- him with sackcloth1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.