פּוּר
Pûwr · H6332 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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lot
Specially marked object, such as a pebble or piece of pottery, used in order to decide questions
ExamplesEsther 3:7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, until the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.
Esther 9:24 For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to eliminate them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and eliminate them.
Esther 9:26 Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,
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Purim Festival
Yearly feast to celebrate how Israel was delivered from the evil plans of Haman who cast the lot to determine the day when they were to be exterminated
ExamplesEsther 9:26 Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,
Esther 9:28 So these days were to be remembered and celebrated throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and these days of Purim were not to be neglected by the Jews, or their memory fade from their descendants.
Esther 9:29 Then Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָפַלto fall 2
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- יוֹםday, time 2
- אִגֶּרֶתletter 1
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
- שֵׁםname 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Stone001002005016
- פּוּר denotes the lot, a small stone or object cast for divination, as Haman cast Pur before deciding the day for his plot against the Jews.
- Festivals002002002011
- The same word gives its name to Purim, the festival commemorating Israel's deliverance from Haman's plot.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6332. Pur מּוּר noun masculine lot (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; perhaps Assyrian…
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 Est 3:7; Est 9:24; הַמּוּר שֵׁם Est 9:26 explains name of feast מּוּרִים Est 9:26; הַמֻּרִים יְמֵי days of Purim Est 9:28; Est 9:31; הַמּ ׳אִגֶּרֶת Est 9:29, הַמּ ׳דִּבְרֵי Est 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).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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