Lexical Summary karpas: cotton or fine linen Original Word: כַּרְפַּסTransliteration: karpas Phonetic Spelling: (kar-pas') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: cotton or fine linen Meaning: byssus, fine vegetable wool Strong's Concordance byssus or fine vegetable woolOf foreign origin; byssus or fine vegetable wool: Brown-Driver-Briggs H3768. karpas כַּרְמַּס noun masculine cotton (or fine linen (loan-word from Sanskrit karpâsa, cotton, Persian fine linen; hence also κάρπασος, carbasus, Arabic Talmud כָּרְמְּסָא; compare LagArm. Stud. § 1148); — כ ׳חוּר וּתְכֵלֶת Esther 1:6 (ᵐ5 καρπασίνοις): compare Cels.Hierob. ii. 157 ff. [כָּרַר] verb √ of following (Late Hebrew כִּרְכֵּר use circumlocution; ᵑ7. plural כִּרְכְּרָן dances; Arabic return, repeat, attack anew, advance and retreat; id.; II. whirl about; originally perhaps move around, then surround, enclose, recur, etc.; Ethiopic turn a mill, only participle; see rotate, revolve, roll, and derivatives Di838f.); — only Pilpel, Participle מְכַרְכֵּר dancing (literally whirling) 2 Samuel 6:14, 16 ("" מְפַזֵּז). |
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