Quick Definition
sack-cloth
Strong's Definition
"sack"-cloth, i.e. mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief)
Derivation: of Hebrew origin (H08242);
KJV Usage: sackcloth
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σάκκος (Attic σάκος), σάκκου, ὁ, Hebrew ωΗ�χ (cf. Fremdwörter, under the word), a sack (Latinsaccus) i. e.
a. a receptacle made for holding or carrying various things, as money, food, etc. (; Lev_11:32).
b. a coarse cloth (Latincilicium), a dark coarse stuff made especially of the hair of animals (A. V. sackcloth): Rev_6:12; a garment of the like material, and clinging to the person like a sack, which was usually worn (or drawn on over the tunic instead of the cloak or mantle) by mourners, penitents, suppliants, Mat_11:21; Luk_10:13, and also by those who, like the Hebrew prophets, led an austere life, Rev_11:3 (cf. what is said of the dress of John the Baptist, Mat_3:4; of Elijah, 2Ki_1:8). More fully in Winers RWB under the word Sack; Roskoff in Schenkel 5:134; (under the word in B. D.; also in McClintock and Strong. (From Herodotus down.))
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σάκκος sakkos 4x
sackcloth, a coarse black cloth made of hair (goat or camel), Rev_6:12 ;
a mourning garment of sackcloth, Mat_11:21 ; Luk_10:13 ; Rev_11:3
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σάκκος ,
also written σάκος , -ου , ὁ
( cf. Heb . H8242 , which it renders in LXX ),
1. a coarse cloth, sackcloth, usually made of hair: Rev_6:12 .
2. Anything made of sackcloth;
(a) a sack ( Gen_42:25 , al. );
(b) a garment of sackcloth, expressive of mourning or penitence: Mat_11:21 , Luk_10:13 , Rev_11:3 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σάκκος [page 567]
a Semitic word, denoting sackcloth, sacking, a coarse cloth made of the hair of goats and other animals; cf. PSI IV. 427 .1, .14 (iii/B.C.) γραφὴ σάκκων καὶ μαρσίππω̣ν̣ . . . σάκκον τρίχινον α―, P Hamb I. 10 .39 (ii/A.D.) σάκκους τριχίνους . Other exx. of the word are P Reinach 17 .19 (B.C. 109) κιτὼν καὶ ἱμάτιον καὶ σάκκον , cf. .21 , P Ryl II, 145 .16 (A.D. 38) σάκκο (ν ) πλήρηι κνήκωι , a sack full of cnecus, BGU II. 597 .9 (A.D. 75) τὸν σάκκον τοῦ πυροῦ , P Oxy VI. 932 .6 (late ii/A.D.) ἰς τοὺς σάκκους σφραγίσας , sealing it ( sc . vegetable seed) in the sacks, ib . XIV, 1733 .2 (late iii/A.D.) τι (μὴ ) σάκκων σιππίων ( l . στυππίων flax ) (δρ .) σ―. On reckoning loads by sacks, see Wilcken Ostr . i. p. 754.
For the dim. σακκίον , see P Eyl II. 245 .13 (iii/A.D.) ἔπεμψά σοι σακ [κίο ]ν στιππε̣ι̣ω̣ν , and cf. Menander Fragm . 544 .4 p. 164 σακίον : for σακκούδιον , see P Oxy VI. 937 .29 (iii/A.D.) δέξε ( l . δέξαι ) γ― σακκούδια π (αρὰ ) τοῦ Ἀντινοέως : and for σακκοφόρος , a porter, see P Tebt I. 39 .26 (B.C. 114). MGr σακκί , with dim .8 . σακκούλι , σακουλά (κ )ι .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σάκκος "a coarse hair-cloth, sackcloth", Lat. cilicium, NTest. "anything made of this cloth, a sack, bag", Hdt. , Ar. "a coarse beard", Ar. [Etym: Prob. a Phoenician word.]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σάκκος also written σάκος, -ου, ὁ
(cf. Heb. שַׂק, which it renders in LXX),
__1. a coarse cloth, sackcloth, usually made of hair: Rev.6:12.
__2. Anything made of sackcloth;
__(a) a sack (Gen.42:25, al.);
__(b) a garment of sackcloth, expressive of mourning or penitence: Mat.11:21, Luk.10:13, Rev.11:3.†
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