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Genesis 3:7

And they are being opened, the eyes of the both of themselves, and they are perceiving that he was shrewd with them, themselves.117 And they are sewing together a leaf of a fig, and they are making to-themselves a girdle.118

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Strongs #2290 ha-gorat. Feminine singular construct of חגורה. A girdle means waist-belt and such it surrounds, or encircles the body at the loin/waist.

Again the scholars of the past assumed it as a plural construct with a "missing" vav חגרת for חגרות. The plural was craftily "fixed in" by way of Masorete vowel pointing— חֲגֹרֹֽת whereas the pronunciation could now be as though it were a plural hagorot.

But the singular meaning is plainly attested to in 1 Kings 2:5: בחגרתו "the girdle of himself."