Pur — This Persian word signifies a lot, because Haman had by lot determined this time to be the time of the Jews destruction.
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Esther 9:26
26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.e Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,