'Rent Their Clothes' in the Bible
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.
Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
And the people ran on them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commanded them to be beaten with rods,
And as they cried and rent their clothes and cast dust in the air,