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# כַּרְפַּס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3768

**cotton** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

**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.

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cotton (1).

## In the verses

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

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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3768/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).