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כַּרְפַּס

kar.pas

fine linen

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Strong’s H3768Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

cotton1

In the text

Esther 1:6כַּרְפַּס
Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כַּרְפַּס n.m. cotton (or fine linen);—Est 1:6

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.