Strong's #6332: Puwr (pronounced poor)

also (plural) Puwriym {poo-reem'}; or Puriym {poo-reem'}; from 6331; a lot (as by means of a broken piece):--Pur, Purim.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pûr / pûrı̂ym

Pur or Purim = "lot" or "piece"

1) lot

1a) a special feast among the post-exilic Jews, to celebrate their deliverance from Haman's destruction through queen Esther' s heroic actions

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6331

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Esther 3:7: "year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before"
Esther 9:24: "the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy"
Esther 9:26: "Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur."
Esther 9:26: "days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for"
Esther 9:28: "every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim"
Esther 9:29: "this second letter of Purim."
Esther 9:31: "these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew"
Esther 9:32: "confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book."