σάκκος
sakkos
“sackcloth”
Definition
"sack"-cloth, i.e. mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief)
of Hebrew origin (H08242);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
G:N-M
Greek Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
σάκκος appears 4 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.