Apron

Narrator: Chris Genthree

• 1 min. read • grade level: 6

The word chagorah signifies “anything girded on.” When Adam and Eve had sinned they discovered that they were naked, and sewed fig-leaves together and made aprons (Gen. 3:7⁷And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (Genesis 3:7)); but were soon conscious that this did not cover their nakedness, for when God called to them they owned that they were naked, and hid behind the trees. This teaches that nothing that man can devise can cover him from the eye of God. God clothed Adam and Eve with coats of skins; it was through death, typical of Christ Himself. In Acts 19:1¹And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, (Acts 19:1)2 The word is σιμικἰωθιυν, and occurs but that once; it signifies a narrow apron or linen covering.