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title: כַּרְפַּס — cotton · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּרְפַּס (3768), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cotton. BDB 1906: n.m. cotton fine linen. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּרְפַּס

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«כַּרְפַּס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cotton** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3768 · **BDB:** כַּרְפַּס

### Glosses

cotton (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cotton [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3768/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cotton fine linen [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3768/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. cotton (or fine linen (loan-word from Sk. karpâsa, cotton, Pers. كَرْپَاس fine linen; hence also κάρπασος, carbasus, Arabic كِرْبَاسٌ, Talm כַּרְפְּסָא; cf. LagArm. Stud. § 1148);—חוּר כ׳ וּתְכֵלֶת Est 1:6 (𝔊 καρπασίνοις): cf. CelsHierob. ii. 157 ff.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּרְפַּס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3768/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 1:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.6/)

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ח֣וּר ׀ כַּרְפַּ֣ס וּתְכֵ֗לֶת אָחוּז֙ בְּחַבְלֵי־ב֣וּץ וְאַרְגָּמָ֔ן עַל־גְּלִ֥ילֵי כֶ֖סֶף וְעַמּ֣וּדֵי שֵׁ֑שׁ מִטּ֣וֹת ׀ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֗סֶף עַ֛ל רִֽצְפַ֥ת בַּהַט־וָשֵׁ֖שׁ וְדַ֥ר וְסֹחָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* white.cloth cotton and violet.material \[was\].held with cords of.fine.linen and purple on rods of.silver and pillars of.marble couches of.gold and silver \[were\].on a.pavement of.porphyry and marble and mother-of-pearl and paving.stone

*JPS 1917:* there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble.

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