1) Adar festival 2) Adar holiday 3) Celebration of deliverance 4) Esther festival 5) Feast of lots 6) February or March festival 7) Festival in the month of Adar 8) Festival of deliverance 9) Holiday in the month of Adar 10) Holiday with hamantaschen 11) Jewish feast 12) Jewish festival 13) Jewish holiday
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Purim (Hebrew: פּוּרִים Pûrîm `lots`, from the word pur פור, related to Akkadian pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire where a plot had been formed to destroy them. The story is recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther (Megillat Ester מגילת אסתר in Heb.....
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• (n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.
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a joyous Jewish festival commemorating the survival of the Jews who, in the 5th century , were marked for death by their Persian rulers. The story is ... [5 related articles]
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Jewish festival celebrated in February or March (the 14th of Adar in the Jewish calendar), commemorating
Esther, who saved the Jews from extermination by the Persian king's vizier (executive...
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(lit., "lots"): one-day festival falling on 14 Adar and commemorating the miraculous salvation of the Jews of the Persian Empire in the fourth century B.C.E.
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Pu'rim noun [ Hebrew
pūr , plural
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.
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Festival commemorating the rescue of Persian Jewry as told in the book of Ester.
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Jewish 'Festival of Lots' commemorating the survival of the Jewish people in the time of the Persian Empire, as recorded in the Book of Esther, read on the festival. It falls around March each year.
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Purim is a Jewish festival of Spring instituted to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened them by the schemes to massacre them by Haman.
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A Jewish holiday commemorating the events in the book of Esther, where Queen Esther saved the Jews of the Persian Empire from the designs of the villainous Haman. On this day, the scroll of Esther is read publicly in Jewish synagogues. Some Jews wear costumes on this day and send food to one another (Hinnells 1991
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n] - (Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman
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noun (Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman
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Jewish festival celebrated in February or March (the 14th of Adar in the Jewish calendar), commemorating Esther, who saved the Jews from extermination by the Persian king's vizier (executive officer) in 473 BC during the Persian occupation
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Literally: lots.
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Even though Purim represents a very significant event it is considered a minor holy day since it is not part of the Torah. It centers on the plot by the wicked Haman to murder all the Jews in King Ahasuerus 127 provinces and how Elohim used Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai to bring relief and deliverance to the Jewish people.
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a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th day of the month of Adar in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews in Persia from destruction by Haman.
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