Lexical Definition

‎שַׂק‎ saq (sak) sackcloth ^H:N-M
from ‎שָׁקַק‎

sack(-cloth, -clothes).

• 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.)

1) mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking
1a) sack (for grain)
1b) sackcloth
1b1) worn in mourning or humiliation
1b2) same material spread out to lie on

See Greek: σάκκος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שַׂק‎ noun masculine^{Josh 9:4} sack, sackcloth (see Schw^{ZAW xi (1891), 173} who conjectures Egyptian origin; Late Hebrew ‎סַק‎ sackcloth (rare); Assyrian ša‡‡u, sack (Dl^{HWB 687 a}), sackcloth (Wkl^{Altor. Forsch, vi. 44}); Ethiopic = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic ‎סַקָּא‎, ; Greek σάκκος Lewy^{Fremdw. 87}); — absolute ‎׳‎‎שׂ‎ Gen 37:34 +, ‎שָׂ֑ק‎ Jer 48:37 +; suffix ‎שַׂקִּי‎ Ps 30:12*, etc.; plural ‎שַׂקִּים‎ Josh 9:4 +, suffix ‎שַׂקֵּיהֶם‎ Gen 42:35 —

1. sack, for grain Gen 42:25; Gen 42:27 (|| ‎אַמְתַּחַת‎), vGen 42:35 vGen 42:35 (E), Josh 9:4 (JE), perhaps also Lev 11:32 (P).

2. sackcloth:
a. worn in mourning and humiliation (see Now^{Archaeology i. 192 f.} 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 Gen 37:34 (J), 1Kgs 20:31, on (bare) flesh 1Kgs 21:27; 2Kgs 6:30, compare Jer 48:37; Job 16:15 (with ‎תָּפַר‎); ‎׳‎‎וְהַעֲלֵיתִי עַלכָּֿלמָֿתְנַיִם שׂ‎ Amos 8:10 usually girt on (‎חָגַר‎) 2Sam 3:31; Isa 15:3; Isa 22:12; Jer 4:8; Jer 6:26; Jer 49:3; Ezek 7:18; Ezek 27:31; 1Kgs 20:32; Joel 1:8, compare Isa 3:24 ‎׳‎‎כִּסָּה בַּשּׂ‎ 2Kgs 19:1; 2Kgs 19:2 = Isa 37:1; Isa 37:2; Jonah 3:6; Jonah 3:8; 1Chr 21:16, figurative of heavens (compare ‎קָדַר‎), ‎אָשִׂים כְּסוּתָם‎ ‎׳‎‎שׂ‎ Isa 50:3 late ‎׳‎‎לָבַשׁ שׂ‎ put on sackcloth Jonah 3:5; Esth 4:1, compare vEsth 4:2; Ps 35:13; Ps 69:12* ‎׳‎‎בְּצוֺם וְשׂ‎ Neh 9:1, compare Dan 9:3 ‎׳‎‎פִּתַּח שׂ‎ loosen sackcloth Isa 20:2 (+ ‎מֵעַל‎), Ps 30:12* (opposed to ‎שִׂמְחָה‎), ‎מֵעַל‎ ‎׳‎‎הֵסִיר שׂ‎ Esth 4:4.
b. same garment (or material) spread out (to lie on), 2Sam 21:10 (with ‎הִטָּה‎), Isa 58:5 (with ‎הִצִּיעַ‎), compare Esth 4:3 ‎׳‎‎וַיִּשְׁכַּב בַּשׂ‎ 1Kgs 21:27, ‎׳‎‎לִינוּ בַּשּׂ‎ Joel 1:13.

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