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Pur
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
PUR, PURIM
Feasts of the Jews, so called, Esther 3:7. The word means Lot. So that Purlin (or Lots in the plural) were those seasons when they celebrated their triumph over Haman and his house; and which festivals are kept even to this hour.
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Pur'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/p/pur.html. London. 1828.