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H6332

פּוּר

purH:N-M

Purim

§ Pur or Purim = "lot" or "piece" means: lot a special feast among the post-exilic Jews, to celebrate their deliverance from Haman's destruction through queen Esther's heroic actions

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

פּוּר noun masculine lot (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; perhaps Assyrian loanword from puru, buru, stone JenZA x. 339 f. and in WildEst p. 173 f.);

**Scheft49 f. compare Old Iranian fravi, etc., progress, fortune, fate, lot. — explained by הַגּוֺרָל Esth 3:7; Esth 9:24 שֵׁם הַפּוּר vEsth 9:26 explains name of feast פּוּרִים vEsth 9:26 יְמֵי הַפֻּרִים days of Purim vEsth 9:28 vEsth 9:31 ׳אִגֶּרֶת הַפּ vEsth 9:29, ׳דִּבְרֵי הַפּ vEsth 9:32. — See on Purim especially NowArchaeology ii. 194 ff and references.

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