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Pur

Pur pur (Esth 3:7, Esth 9:26). See PURIM.

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Meaning

Pur pur (Esth 3:7, Esth 9:26).

See PURIM.

Related meanings

Purim; Pur

Purim; Pur pur'-rim, pur (purim, "lots"; Septuagint Phrourai): The name of a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th and 15th days of the month Adar, the final month of the Biblical year, corresponding to Febru...

Purah

Purah pu'-ra (purah, "branch"): Gideon's "servant," literally, "young man," i.e. armor-bearer (Jud 7:10 f, the King James Version "Phurah").

Purchase

Purchase pur'-chats: In modern English, "to acquire by payment," in Elizabethan English, "to acquire" by any means. In the Old Testament, the King James Version has used "purchase" to represent qanah, and its...

Pure; Purely; Purity

Pure; Purely; Purity pur, pur'-li, pu'-ri-ti: This group of words has in the Old Testament and the New Testament an almost exclusively ethical significance, though the word "pure" is of course used also in its...

Purge

Purge purj: A number of words in both the Old Testament and the New Testament are so rendered in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), although frequently in the Revised Versio...

Purification

Purification pu-ri-fi-ka'-shun. See PURGE, PURITY, UNCLEANNESS.

Purity

Purity pu'-ri-ti: The Bible bears witness to the long struggle over and in man to secure physical, mental, and moral cleanliness. The various forms of purity have relation to each other. We have a common prove...

Purloining

Purloining pur-loin'-ing: Lit. "for far off," hence, to carry away or steal; the word is the translation of nosphizomai, "to take away for oneself," "to secrete," "to steal," a word appropriate to those in the...

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