◄ H6332 ►
פּרים פּוּרים פּוּר
Transliteration
Puwr; poor also (pl.) Puwriym pooAreem' or Puriym
Pronunciation
pooAreem'
Parts of Speech
n m
Root Word (Etymology)
from 6331
Dictionary Aids
TWOT Reference: 1749
KJV Translation Count — 8x
The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: Purim (5), Pur (3)
Outline of Biblical Usage
ur or Purim = "lot" or "piece"
1. lot
a. a special feast among the post-exilic Jews, to celebrate their deliverance from Haman's destruction through queen Esther's heroic actions
Strong's Definitions
Puwr, poor; also (plural) Puwriym, poo-reem'; or Puriym, poo-reem'; from 6331; a lot (as by means of a broken piece): — Pur, Purim.
Concordance Results Using KJV
In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast H6332, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast H6332, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
Wherefore they called these days H6332 after the name of H6332. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of H6332 should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of H6332.
To confirm these days of H6332 in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of H6332; and it was written in the book.