KJV dictionary & concordance
Coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning, humiliation, or repentance.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 37:34
Complete exact-word concordance
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.
For this gird you with sackcloth; lament and howle: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned backe from vs.
1611 marginal noteChap. 6.26.
¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallowe thy selfe in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an onely sonne, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come vpon vs.
1611 marginal noteChap.4.8. and 25.36.
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
For euery head shall be bald, and euery beard clipt: vpon all the hands shall be cuttings, and vpon the loines sackcloth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. diminished.
1611 marginal noteIsai. 15.2,3.
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Howle, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry yee daughters of Rabbah, gird yee with sackcloth: lament and runne to and fro by the hedges: for their king shall goe into captiuitie: and his priests and his princes together.
1611 marginal noteOr, Melcom.
1611 marginal noteChap.48.7.
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