CARPUS kär’ pəs (Κάρπος, G2842, perhaps from καρπός, G2843, fruit). Carpus was a resident of Troas, prob. a Christian, with whom Paul stayed during his last visit there. According to 2 Timothy 4:13, Paul left his cloak there. If he did so during the visit recorded in Acts 20:6-12, it may have been because he decided to walk across the peninsula from Troas to Assos and board his ship there. Paul requested Timothy to bring his cloak to Rome, presumably because he had been placed in a Rom. dungeon. Carpus is not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture, but, according to Hippolytus, he later became the bishop of Berytus or Beroea in Thrace.