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פּוּר

pur · Pur, lot

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6332 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

pur (פּוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Pur, lot”.

Pur: a foreign word that the book of Esther explains as "the lot": what is cast to decide something by chance. From it comes the name of the feast of Purim.

How to say it

pur

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. "The lot" cast to decide something; hence the feast.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • Purim ×5
  • Pur ×3

Where it appears

  • Esther 3:7

    In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur was cast —that is, the lot— before Haman from day to day and from month to month, to the twelfth, which is the month of Adar.

  • Esther 9:24

    For Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to make them perish, and had cast Pur —that is, the lot— to throw them into turmoil and to make them perish.

  • Esther 9:26

    Therefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and what they had seen concerning this, and what had come to them,

  • Esther 9:28

    and these days would be remembered and observed in every generation, each family, each province, and each city; and these days of Purim would not pass away from among the Jews, and the remembrance of them would not cease from their offspring.

  • Esther 9:29

    And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to establish this second letter of Purim.

  • Esther 9:31

    to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had established for them, and as they had established for themselves and for their offspring: the matters of the fasts and of their crying out.

  • Esther 9:32

    And the command of Esther established these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book.

And 1 more times.