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Strong's #8242 - שַׂק
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- mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking
- sack (for grain)
- sackcloth
- worn in mourning or humiliation
- same material spread out to lie on
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1 sack, for grain Genesis 42:25,27 ("" אַמְתַּחַת), Genesis 42:35; Genesis 42:35 (E), Joshua 9:4 (JE), perhaps also Leviticus 11:32 (P).
2 sackcloth:
a. worn in mourning and humiliation (see Now Archaeology i. 192f. SACook Ency. Bib. under the word), either loose garment like sack, or piece of similar material (of rough, dark hair), fastened round body: put (שִׂים) on loins Genesis 37:34 (J), 1 Kings 20:31, on (bare) flesh 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 6:30, compare Jeremiah 48:37; Job 16:15 (with תָּפַר); ׳וְהַעֲלֵיתִי עַלכָּֿלמָֿתְנַיִם שׂ Amos 8:10; usually girt on (חָגַר) 2 Samuel 3:31; Isaiah 15:3; Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 4:8; Jeremiah 6:26; Jeremiah 49:3; Ezekiel 7:18; Ezekiel 27:31; 1 Kings 20:32; Joel 1:8, compare Isaiah 3:24; ׳כִּסָּה בַּשּׂ 2 Kings 19:1,2= Isaiah 37:1,2; Jonah 3:6,8; 1 Chronicles 21:16, figurative of heavens (compare קָדַר), אָשִׂים כְּסוּתָם׳שׂ Isaiah 50:3; late ׳לָבַשׁ שׂ put on sackcloth Jonah 3:5; Esther 4:1, compare Esther 4:2; Psalm 35:13; Psalm 69:12; ׳בְּצוֺם וְשׂ Nehemiah 9:1, compare Daniel 9:3; ׳מִּתַּח שׂ loosen sackcloth Isaiah 20:2 (+ מֵעַל), Psalm 30:12 (opposed to שִׂמְחָה), מֵעַל׳הֵסִיר שׂ Esther 4:4.
b. same garment (or material) spread out (to lie on), 2 Samuel 21:10 (with הִטָּה), Isaiah 58:5 (with הִצִּיעַ), compare Esther 4:3 ׳וַיִּשְׁכַּב בַּשׂ 1 Kings 21:27, ׳לִינוּ בַּשּׂ Joel 1:13.
שַׂק m. with suff.-שַׂקּוֹ, plur. שַׂקִּים
(1) sack-cloth, thick cloth, especially made of hair, like strainers (see the root שָׂקַק ), used also for corn sacks and mourning garments. (Compare Ethiop. ሠቅ፡ sack-cloth, hence the clothing of monks and holy pilgrims, ሠቅሠቅ፡ lattice, Gr. σάκος, σάκκος, sack-cloth, Lat. saccus, which Jerome also used for the garment of a pilgrim; also, σάγος, sagum, i.e. a thick cloak used by soldiers.) Isaiah 3:24, מַחֲגֹרֶת שַׂק a girdle of sackcloth. Hence
(2) a corn sack, Genesis 42:25, 27 Genesis 42:27, 35 Genesis 42:35; Leviticus 11:32.
(3) the dress of mourners, Genesis 37:34; 2 Samuel 3:31; Esther 4:1; Joel 1:8; Jonah 3:6 of devotees and prophets, Isaiah 20:2.