Lexical Summary sakkos: sackcloth Original Word: σάκκοςTransliteration: sakkos Phonetic Spelling: (sak'-kos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: sackcloth Meaning: sackcloth Strong's Concordance sackcloth. Of Hebrew origin (saq); "sack"-cloth, i.e. Mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief) -- sackcloth. see HEBREW saq Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4526: σάκκοςσάκκος (Attic σάκος), σάκκου, ὁ, Hebrew שַׂק (cf. Fremdwörter, under the word), a sack (Latinsaccus) i. e. a. a receptacle made for holding or carrying various things, as money, food, etc. ( b. a coarse cloth (Latincilicium), a dark coarse stuff made especially of the hair of animals (A. V. sackcloth): Revelation 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, Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13, and also by those who, like the Hebrew prophets, led an austere life, Revelation 11:3 (cf. what is said of the dress of John the Baptist, Matthew 3:4; of Elijah, 2 Kings 1:8). More fully in Winers RWB under the word Sack; Roskoff in Schenkel 5:134; (under the word |
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