Lexical Summary Pur: "a lot", a Jewish feast Original Word: פוּרTransliteration: Pur Phonetic Spelling: (poor) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: "a lot", a Jewish feast Meaning: "a lot", a Jewish feast Strong's Concordance Pur, Purim Also (plural) Puwriym {poo-reem'}; or Puriym {poo-reem'}; from puwr; a lot (as by means of a broken piece) -- Pur, Purim. see HEBREW puwr Brown-Driver-Briggs H6332. Pur מּוּר noun masculine lot (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; perhaps Assyrian loanword from puru, buru, stone JenZA x. 339 f. and in WildEst p. 173 f.); **Scheft49f. compare Old Iranian fravi, etc., progress, fortune, fate, lot. — explained by הַגּוֺרָל Esther 3:7; 9:24; הַמּוּר שֵׁם 9:26 explains name of feast מּוּרִים 9:26; הַמֻּרִים יְמֵי days of Purim 9:28; 9:31; הַמּ ׳אִגֶּרֶת 9:29, הַמּ ׳דִּבְרֵי 9:32. — See on Purim especially NowArchaeology ii. 194 ff and references. I. פור (check of following; possibly foam, compare Arabic (), , boil, ferment; Syriac , Ethpe`el, of anger). |
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