8242. saq
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saq: sack, sackcloth
Original Word: שָׂק
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: saq
Phonetic Spelling: (sak)
Short Definition: sackcloth

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
sack, sackcloth
NASB Translation
sack (4), sackcloth (42), sacks (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
שַׂק noun masculineJoshua 9:4 sack, sackcloth (see SchwZAW xi (1891), 173 who conjectures Egyptian origin; Late Hebrew סַק sackcloth (rare); Assyrian ša‡‡u, sack (DlHWB 687 a), sackcloth (WklAltor. Forsch, vi. 44); Ethiopic = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic סַקָּא, ; Greek σάκκος LewyFremdw. 87); — absolute ׳שׂ Genesis 37:34 +, שָׂ֑ק Jeremiah 48:37 +; suffix שַׂקִּי Psalm 30:12, etc.; plural שַׂקִּים Joshua 9:4 +, suffix שַׂקֵּיהֶם Genesis 42:35; —

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 NowArchaeology i. 192 f. SACookEncy. 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.



Strong's
sackcloth,

From shaqaq; 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.) -- sack(-cloth, -clothes).

see HEBREW shaqaq

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