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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Heb.

pūr

, pl.

pūrīm

, a lot.]

A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.

Esther ix. 26.

Noun.

Among the Jews,the feast of lots, instituted to commemorate their deliverance from the machinations of Haman. Esth.9.

Purim

(Judaism) A Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a massacre.

Jewish festival