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H3768 כַּרְפַּס (karpaç) kar-pas'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

of foreign origin; byssus or fine vegetable wool: -green.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

כַּרְפַּס (kar.pas) — fine linen. cotton or fine linen

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m

Plants

cotton = an annual plant, which grows to 2 meters in height, with soft, lobed leaves and mallow-like flowers, which are yellow with a purple center; when the flower matures, the boll underneath puffs out and eventually splits, revealing a mass of fine white filaments that we know as “cotton wool;” ◄ Gossypium herbaceum; ► used for making cloth

EST 1:6

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

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

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