Occurrences
Saq occurs 48 times in 46 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Leviticus (1), Joshua (1), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1), Esther (4), Job (1), Psalms (3), Isaiah (8), Jeremiah (4), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (2), Daniel (1), Joel (2), Amos (1), Jonah (3)
- Genesis 37:34 — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth (שַׂ֖ק) upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 42:25 — Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack (שַׂקּ֔וֹ), and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
- Genesis 42:27 — And as one of them opened his sack (שַׂקּ֗וֹ) to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
- Genesis 42:35 — And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks (שַׂקֵּיהֶ֔ם), that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
- Genesis 42:35 — And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack (בְּשַׂקּ֑וֹ): and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
- Leviticus 11:32 — And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack (שָׂ֔ק), whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
- Joshua 9:4 — They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks (שַׂקִּ֤ים) upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
- 2 Samuel 3:31 — And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֔ים), and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
- 2 Samuel 21:10 — And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth (הַשַּׂ֜ק), and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
- 1 Kings 20:31 — And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֨ים) on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
- 1 Kings 20:32 — So they girded sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֨ים) on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
- 1 Kings 21:27 — And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth (שַׂ֥ק) upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
- 1 Kings 21:27 — And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth (בַּשָּׂ֔ק), and went softly.
- 2 Kings 6:30 — And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth (הַשַּׂ֛ק) within upon his flesh.
- 2 Kings 19:1 — And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth (בַּשָּׂ֔ק), and went into the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 19:2 — And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth (בַּשַּׂקִּ֑ים), to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- 1 Chronicles 21:16 — And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth (בַּשַּׂקִּ֖ים), fell upon their faces.
- Nehemiah 9:1 — Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes (וּבְשַׂקִּ֔ים), and earth upon them.
- Esther 4:1 — When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth (שַׂ֖ק) with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Esther 4:2 — And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth (שָֽׂק).
- Esther 4:3 — And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth (שַׂ֣ק) and ashes.
- Esther 4:4 — So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth (שַׂקּ֛וֹ) from him: but he received it not.
- Job 16:15 — I have sewed sackcloth (שַׂ֣ק) upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
- Psalms 30:11 — Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֑י), and girded me with gladness;
- Psalms 35:13 — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth (שָׂ֗ק): I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
- Psalms 69:11 — I made sackcloth (שָׂ֑ק) also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
- Isaiah 3:24 — And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth (שָׂ֑ק); and burning instead of beauty.
- Isaiah 15:3 — In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth (שָׂ֑ק): on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
- Isaiah 20:2 — At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth (הַשַּׂק֙) from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth (שָֽׂק):
- Isaiah 37:1 — And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth (בַּשָּׂ֔ק), and went into the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 37:2 — And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth (בַּשַּׂקִּ֑ים), unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- Isaiah 50:3 — I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth (וְשַׂ֖ק) their covering.
- Isaiah 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth (וְשַׂ֤ק) and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
- Jeremiah 4:8 — For this gird you with sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֖ים), lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
- Jeremiah 6:26 — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth (שָׂק֙), and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
- Jeremiah 48:37 — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth (שָֽׂק).
- Jeremiah 49:3 — Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֔ים); lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
- Lamentations 2:10 — The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֑ים): the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
- Ezekiel 7:18 — They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֔ים), and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
- Ezekiel 27:31 — And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֑ים), and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
- Daniel 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth (וְשַׂ֥ק), and ashes:
- Joel 1:8 — Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth (שַׂ֖ק) for the husband of her youth.
- Joel 1:13 — Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth (בַשַּׂקִּ֔ים), ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
- Amos 8:10 — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth (שָׂ֔ק) upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
- Jonah 3:5 — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֔ים), from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- Jonah 3:6 — For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth (שַׂ֔ק), and sat in ashes.
- Jonah 3:8 — But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth (שַׂקִּ֗ים), and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.