Lexical Definition

‎כַּרְפַּס‎ karpaç (kar-pas') fine linen ^H:N-M
of foreign origin

green.

• byssus or fine vegetable wool

1) cotton or fine linen

See Greek: βύσσινος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כַּרְפַּס‎ noun masculine cotton (or fine linen (loan-word from Sanskrit karpâsa, cotton, Persian fine linen; hence also κάρπασος, carbasus, Arabic Talmud ‎כָּרְפְּסָא‎; compare Lag^{Arm. Stud. § 1148}); — ‎וּתְכֵלֶת‎ ‎׳‎‎חוּר כ‎ Esth 1:6 (ᵐ5 καρπασίνοις): compare Cels.^{Hierob. ii. 157 ff}.

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