chagor · loincloth, belt

What it means

chagor (חֲגוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “loincloth, belt”.

Something tied round the waist: a belt or loincloth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A band of leather or cloth holding clothes at the waist; also aprons.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• belt ×6
• loincloths ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 3:7

  And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his garment, and even his sword, and even his bow, and even his belt.

• 2 Samuel 18:11

  Joab said to the man who told him, “And look, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there and bring him to the ground? And it would have been for me to give you ten shekels of silver and one belt.”

• 2 Samuel 20:8

  They were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab was girded with the garment he wore, and over it was a belt with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went out, it fell out.

• 1 Kings 2:5

  Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, whom he killed, and he set the blood of war in time of peace and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist and on his sandal that were on his feet.

• 2 Kings 3:21

  All Moab heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and they were called out, all from those who could gird on a belt and upward, and they stood at the border.

• Isaiah 3:24

  And it will happen that instead of balsam there will be rot, and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of the work of hairdressing, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; a burn instead of beauty.