Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6332
פּוּר
Purpoor
Purim
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Pûwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6332is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6332
a lot (as by means of a broken piece)
The King James renders it: Pur, Purim.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Pur is rendered "Purim". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 3:7In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
Esther 3:7פּוּר֩
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the Purim4
- Pur2
- Purim1
- the Pur1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פּוּץ | puts | to scatter | Uses67 |
| פּוּחַ | puach | to breathe | Uses14 |
| פּוּק | puq | to promote | Uses7 |
| פּוּג | pug | be numb | Uses4 |
| פּוּךְ | puk | color | Uses4 |
| פּוּשׁ | push | to leap | Uses4 |
| פּוּר | pur | to break | Uses3 |
| פּוּק | puq | to reel | Uses2 |
| פּוּרָה | purah | winepress | Uses2 |
| פּוּן | pun | to distract | Uses1 |
| פּוּגָה | pugah | cessation | Uses1 |
| פּוּנִי | Puni | Punite | Uses1 |
and 2 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַפּ֔וּר1
- הַפּוּרִ֣ים1
- הַפּוּרִ֛ים1
- הַפֻּרִ֨ים1
- הַפֻּרִ֖ים1
- פּוּר֩1
- פּוּר֙1
- פוּרִים֙1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural4HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Esther
eight uses
In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
- פּוּר֩purnoun · masculine singulartagged: Pur
For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
- פּוּר֙purnoun · masculine singulartagged: Pur
Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
- פוּרִים֙furimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: Purim
- הַפּ֔וּרhapurthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the Pur
These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
- הַפּוּרִ֣יםhapurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Purim
So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
- הַפּוּרִ֛יםhapurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Purim
in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
- הַפֻּרִ֨יםhapurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Purim
So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.
- הַפֻּרִ֖יםhapurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Purim
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.