noun · masculine
sakkos
Strong’sG4526
sack-cloth
stem sakk-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
σάκκος also written σάκος, -ου, ὁ
(cf. Heb. שַׂק, which it renders in LXX),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4526 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsak'-kos
"sack"-cloth, i.e. mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief)
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King Jamessackcloth.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
or σάκος, ὁ, see entry near the end:— coarse cloth of hair, especially of goats' hair, σάκκος τρίχινος LXX+NT
II anything made of this cloth:
II.1 sack, bag, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 sieve, strainer, especially for wine, Refs 6th c.BC+
II.3 coarse garment, sackcloth, worn as mourning by the Jews, LXX+NT+1st c.AD+
III coarse beard, like rough hair-cloth, σάκον πρὸς ταῖν γνάθοιν ἔχειν Refs 5th c.BC+ —The form σάκος is said to be Attic dialect, Refs 2nd c.AD+ R., etc.; while σάκκος is called Doric dialect by Refs 6th c.BC+. Inscrr. have σάκος Refs: Papyri have σάκος Refs 3rd c.BC+, but oftener σάκκος Refs 3rd c.BC+, etc. (Prob. the word, like the thing, was borrowed from Phoenicia, cf. Hebrew saq.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sakkos1×σάκκος | sakkois |
| object accusative | sakkon | sakkoin1×σάκκους |
| direct address vocative | sakkor | sakkoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sakkou | sakkoiu |
| to, for dative | sakko2×σάκκῳ | sakkoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
sakko is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
sakkos“sackcloth”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 6:12… kai tos hēlios geneta melanos hōs sakkos trichinos, kai tas selēnas holas geneta …… and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole …
sakko“sackcloth”to, fordative singular2×
Matthew 11:21… generantais en vi, palai an en sakko kai spoda metanoala.… would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 10:13… generantais en vi, palai an en sakko kai spoda kathorōntois metanoala.… have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
sakkoin“sackcloth”objectaccusative plural1×
Revelation 11:3… profēteuali hēmerain chilioi diakosioi hexēkonta, peribalorēntois sakkoin.… will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”