ha.go.rah denotes a belt or girded covering worn on the body, including one used in dress, readiness, or as a gift.

The attested use denotes a bodily belt or girded covering: it is worn on the loins, put on for readiness, given as a reward, contrasted with a rope, and, in plural, made as coverings from fig leaves.

1. Bodily belt or girded covering · dominant

   The singular form identifies an item worn on the loins in 1 Kings 2:5, an item people could gird on before standing at the border in 2 Kings 3:21, and an item offered with silver in 2 Samuel 18:11. In Isaiah 3:24 the APB renders the contrast as “instead of a belt, a rope,” while the plural form in Genesis 3:7 occurs when fig leaves are sewn together and made into “coverings for themselves.”

   1 Kings 2:52 Kings 3:212 Samuel 18:11Genesis 3:7Isaiah 3:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the singular forms as “belt” in four verses, including a belt on the loins and one contrasted with a rope. In Genesis 3:7 it renders the plural occurrence as “coverings for themselves”.