sackcloth
part of speech
noun (no plural)
meaning for a pupil
A rough, coarse cloth made from sacking, once worn to show sadness or sorrow. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary lessons: a poor or sad person dressed in rough cloth in old stories
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 →
- Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. (Writings 1CH.21.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. (Prophets ISA.50.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them. (Writings PSA.69.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- She had been dressed in a garment of sackcloth. tree →
- The beggar wore sackcloth and ashes. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
- Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
- For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
- For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Trees and pragmatics
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