Pû'rîm, n.

n. [Heb. pûr, pl. pûrîm, a lot, a Persian word. Cf. Per. pārah, a piece, fragment, and bahrah, part, share.] (Jewish Ant.) The feast of lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. Esth. ix. 26.