Greek noun (masculine) · G4526
σάκκος
sakkossak'-kos
a coarse cloth, sackcloth, usually made of hair; Anything made of sackcloth
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sákkos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4526is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4526
"sack"-cloth, i.e. mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief)
The King James renders it: sackcloth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sakkos is rendered "a coarse cloth, sackcloth, usually made of hair; Anything made of sackcloth". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a coarse cloth, sackcloth, usually made of hair".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 11:21“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.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“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.
Matthew 11:21σάκκῳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a coarse cloth, sackcloth, usually made of hair, and Anything made of sackcloth.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a coarse cloth, sackcloth, usually made of hairRev.6:12. | Tagged as
| WhereRevelation 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake… |
| Anything made of sackcloth__(a) a sack (Gen.42:25 | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 42:25Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s silver to his sack… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σάκκῳ2
- σάκκος1
- σάκκους1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular2N-DSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Matthew
one use
“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.
- σάκκῳsakkonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: sackcloth
Luke
one use
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.
- σάκκῳsakkonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: sackcloth
Revelation
two uses
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,
- σάκκοςsakkosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: sackcloth
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- σάκκουςsakkousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: sackcloth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.