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# sackcloth

noun (no plural)

«sackcloth» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A rough, coarse cloth made from sacking, once worn to show sadness or sorrow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/#m1)

### In the lessons

a poor or sad person dressed in rough cloth in old stories

### Examples

- She had been dressed in a garment of sackcloth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/#x1)
- The beggar wore sackcloth and ashes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

It is worn as a sign of deep grief and mourning, as Jacob does for Joseph.

**Interpretation.** Tradition sees wearing sackcloth as an outward sign of mourning or repentance. Jacob's mourning for Joseph, whom he thought dead, was so deep that he refused comfort.

### Examples

- And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. (Torah GEN.37.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sackcloth/#x1)
- Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. (Writings 1CH.21.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sackcloth/#x2)
- I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. (Prophets ISA.50.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sackcloth/#x3)
- I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them. (Writings PSA.69.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sackcloth/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sackcloth» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackcloth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «sackcloth» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sackcloth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sackcloth» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sackcloth.html) on Mova free.