Editing Purim (section)

==Name==
''Purim'' is the plural of the Hebrew word {{lang|he-Latn|pur}} (loan from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] ''puru'') meaning "[[Cleromancy#In Judaic and Christian tradition|lot]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Köhler |first1=Ludwig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBVItAEACAAJ |title=HALOT |last2=Baumgartner |first2=Walter |date=2016 |publisher=OakTree Software |language=en |access-date=7 March 2023 |archive-date=18 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418170006/https://books.google.com/books?id=IBVItAEACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Efn|From the Hebrew word {{lang|he|פור}} ({{transliteration|he|pur}}), translated as 'lot' in the [[Book of Esther]], perhaps related to [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] {{transliteration|akk|pūrum}} ({{lang|akk|𒎎𒁓}}, {{Literal translation|stone|urn}});<ref>{{cite book |last=Klein |first=Ernest |date=1966 |title=A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language |url=https://archive.org/details/comprehensiveety0002klei |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/comprehensiveety0002klei/page/1274 1274] |publisher=Elsevier }}</ref> also called the '''Festival of Lots'''.}} Its use as the name of this festival comes from Esther 3:6–7, describing the choice of date:

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|text=6: [...] having been told who Mordecai's people were, Haman plotted to do away with all the Jews, Mordecai's people, throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus. <Br/>

7: In the first month, that is, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, pur—which means "the lot"—was cast before Haman concerning every day and every month, [until it fell on] the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar.<ref>{{Citation
 |year              = 1985
 |title             = Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
 |publisher         = Jewish Publication Society
 |publication-place = Philadelphia, PA
 |page              = 1460
 |url               = https://www.sefaria.org/Esther.3.6
 |isbn              = 9780827602526
 |access-date       = {{today}}
 |archive-date      = 4 September 2022
 |archive-url       = https://web.archive.org/web/20220904155226/https://www.sefaria.org/Esther.3.6
 |url-status        = live
}}</ref>}}