Meaning of the name: Purim, lot. Related names are:
Haman,
Nisan,
Ahasuerus (and others ...)
. The translations of Pur in 5 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
ichthys
below, from
Pura in Spanish to
Pura in Albanian!
In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. (EST 3:7)
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; (EST 9:24)
Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, (EST 9:26)