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Sack [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A bag, usually a large cloth bag, used for holding and conveying corn, small wares, wool, cotton, hops, and the like. Genesis 42:25 .

2. SACK of wool, in England, is 22 stone of 14lb. each, or 308 pounds. In Scotland, it is 24 stone of 16 pounds each, or 384 pounds.

3. A sack of cotton, contains usually about 300lb. but it may be from 150 to 400 pounds.

4. SACK of earth, in fortification, is a canvas bag filled with earth, used in making retrenchments in haste.

5. The measure of three bushels.

6. A species of sweet wine, brought chiefly from the Canary isles.

7. Among our rude ancestors, a kind of cloak of a square form, worn over the shoulders and body, and fastened in from by a clasp or thorn. It was originally made of skin, afterwards of wool. In modern times, this name has been given to a woman's garment, a gown with loose plaits on the back; but no garment of this kind is now worn, and the word is in disuse. [See Varro, Strabo, Cluver, Bochart.]

8. The pillage or plunder of a town or city; or the storm and plunder of a town; as the sack of Troy.

Sack [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put in a sac or in bags.

2. To plunder or pillage, as a town or city. Rome was twice taken and sacked in the reign of one pope. This word is never, I believe, applied to the robbing of persons, or pillaging of single houses, but to the pillaging of towns and cities; and as towns are usually or often sacked, when taken by assault, the word may sometimes include the sense of taking by storm.

3. The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy.

Sack [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

2. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

3. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

4. Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.

5. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

6. See 2d Sac, 2.

7. Bed.

8. The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.

Sack [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

3. To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

Sack-posset [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A posset made of sack, milk and some other ingredients.

Sack-winged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.

Sackage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of taking by storm and pillaging.

Sackage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.

Sackbut [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A wind instrument of music; a kind of trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required.

Sackbut [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone.

Sackcloth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Cloth of which sacks are made; coarse cloth. This word is chiefly used in Scripture to denote a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress or mortification.

2. Gird you with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. 2 Samuel 3:31 .

3. Esther 4:1 . Job 16:15 .

Sackcloth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.

Sackcloth Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

a sort of mourning worn at the death of a friend or relation. In great calamities, in penitence, in trouble also, they wore sackcloth about their bodies: “Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn for Abner,” 2 Sam. iii, 31. “Let us gird ourselves with sackcloth; and let us go and implore the clemency of the king of Israel,” 1 Kings xx, 31. Ahab rent his clothes, put on a shirt of haircloth next to his skin, fasted, and lay upon sackcloth, 1 Kings xxi, 27. When Mordecai was informed of the destruction threatened to his nation, he put on sackcloth, and covered his head with ashes, Esther iv. On the contrary, in time of joy, or on hearing good news, those who were clad in sackcloth tore it from their bodies, and cast it from them, Psalm xxx, 11. The prophets were often clothed in sackcloth, and generally in coarse clothing. The Lord bids Isaiah to put off the sackcloth from about his body, and to go naked, that is, without his upper garment, Isaiah xx, 2. Zechariah says that false prophets shall no longer prophesy in sackcloth, to deceive the simple, Zech. xiii, 4.

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Sackclothed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Clothed in sackcloth.

Sackclothed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Clothed in sackcloth.

Sacked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pillaged; stormed and plundered.

Sacked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sacker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that takes a town or plunders it.

Sacker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.

Sackful [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A full sack or bag.

Sackful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bent on plunder.

Sackful [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

As much as a sack will hold.

Sackfuls [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sacking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of taking by storm and pillaging.

2. Cloth of which sacks or bags are made.

3. The coarse cloth or canvas fastened to a bedstead for supporting the bed.

Sacking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Taking by assault and plundering or pillaging.

Sacking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

Sacking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sacking Encyclopedia Britannica

SACKING and SACK MANUFACTURE. Sacking is a stout close-woven fabric, properly of flax, but now very largely made of jute. The chief centres of the manufacture are Dundee and Forfar in Scotland. Sacks, however, are made of many qualities and from different fibres, according to the purposes to which they are devoted. A large proportion of flour sacks, those particularly of American origin, are made of stout cotton. Numerous attempts have been made to manufacture seamless sacks; but none have met with success. The invention of a sewing-machine for the “overhead” seaming of sacks has been successfully solved in the machine of Laing and other inventors.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 131
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Sackless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Quiet; peaceable; not quarrelsome; harmless; innocent. [Local.]

Sackless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent.

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79 KJV and 63 BSB verses contain “sack” — showing the first 20. Show all 81 verses (searchable)

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 42:25

Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.

Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out,

Genesis 42:27

And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.

Genesis 42:28

And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?

“My silver has been returned!” he said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”

Genesis 42:35

And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.

Genesis 43:12

And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:

Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Genesis 43:18

And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

Genesis 43:21

And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

Genesis 43:22

And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”

Genesis 43:23

And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

“It is fine,” said the steward. “Do not be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, gave you the treasure that was in your sacks. I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

Genesis 44:1

And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 44:2

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.

Genesis 44:8

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

Genesis 44:11

Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

Genesis 44:12

And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Leviticus 11:32

And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

Joshua 9:4

They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

2 Samuel 3:31

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

Then David ordered Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David himself walked behind the funeral bier.

2 Samuel 12:16

David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

2 Samuel 21:10

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.