Category:Sackcloth

Sack"cloth`, n.

Defn: linen or cotton cloth such a sacks are made of; coarse cloth; Anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, Mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before abner. 2 sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth i invest my woe. Sandys.

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Sackcloth - Cloth made of black goats' hair, coarse, rough, and thick, used for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Genesis 37:34; Genesis 42:25; 2 Samuel 3:31; Esther 4:1, Esther 4:2; Psalms 30:11, etc.), and as a sign of repentance (Matthew 11:21). It was put upon animals by the people of Nineveh (Jonah 3:8).