KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: The powdery residue left after burning. Sense 2: A sign of mourning, humiliation, or ruin.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 18:27
Complete exact-word concordance
WHEN Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
¶ When Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the citie, and cried with a loud and a bitter crie:
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 and ashes.
And in euery prouince, whithersoeuer the kings commaundement, and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. sackecloth and ashes were laid vnder many.
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