PURSE purs. See BAG. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PURSE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

PURPOSE, OF GOD pur'-pus (prothesis (Romans 9:11; Ephesians 1:11)): The word "purpose" seems to be an equivalent of the word "decree" as used in regard to man's relation to eternity. More correctly stated, it softens the word "decree" and refers back to the cause of the decree as lodged in an intelligent design and forward to an aim consistent wit

PURPLE pur'-p'-l ('argaman; Chaldaic 'argewan (2 Chronicles 2:7); compare Arabic 'urjuwan, and Persian 'arghawan; porphura, porphureos Septuagint and New Testament)): Purple dye was manufactured by the Phoenicians from a marine mollusk, Murex trunculus. The shell was broken in order to give access to a small gland which was removed and crushed. Th

PURLOINING pur-loin'-ing: Lit. "for far off," hence, to carry away or steal; the word is the translation of nosphizomai, "to take away for oneself," "to secrete," "to steal," a word appropriate to those in the position of slaves in a master's service (Titus 2:10, "not purloining"). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography In

PURIM; PUR pur'-rim, pur (purim, "lots"; Septuagint Phrourai): The name of a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th and 15th days of the month Adar, the final month of the Biblical year, corresponding to February-March. 1. Scripture References: The origin of the festival is narrated in the Book of Esther, and indeed is the motive of the book, as

PURITY pu'-ri-ti: The Bible bears witness to the long struggle over and in man to secure physical, mental, and moral cleanliness. The various forms of purity have relation to each other. We have a common proverb that "cleanliness is akin to godliness." Cleanliness and aesthetics are certainly nigh neighbors. But cleanliness and ethics do not dwel

PURIFICATION pu-ri-fi-ka'-shun. See PURGE; PURITY; UNCLEANNESS. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PURIFICATION'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

PURE; PURELY; PURITY pur, pur'-li, pu'-ri-ti: This group of words has in the Old Testament and the New Testament an almost exclusively ethical significance, though the word "pure" is of course used also in its literal sense of freedom from alloy or other alien matter (Exodus 25:11, etc.). "Pure" in the Old Testament represents many Hebrew words, m

PURGE purj: A number of words in both the Old Testament and the New Testament are so rendered in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), although frequently in the Revised Version (British and American) the older English word "purge" is displaced by the more applicable modern terms "cleanse" and "purify," since the e

PURCHASE pur'-chats: In modern English, "to acquire by payment," in Elizabethan English, "to acquire" by any means. In the Old Testament, the King James Version has used "purchase" to represent qanah, and its derivatives (verb and noun), except in Leviticus 25:33, where the word is ga'al (the Revised Version (British and American) "redeem"). In th

PURAH pu'-ra (purah, "branch"): Gideon's "servant," literally, "young man," i.e. armor-bearer (Judges 7:10, the King James Version "Phurah"). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PURAH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

PUR pur (Esther 3:7; 9:26). See PURIM. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PUR'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

PUNON pu'-non (punon): A desert camp of the Israelites, the second after leaving Mt. Hor (Numbers 33:42,43). Eusebius (Onom 299 85; 123 9) mentions an Idumean village, North of Petra, in the desert, where convicts were mining copper, called Phinon or Phainon. These are doubtless identical. See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL. Copyright Statement These files

PUNITES pu'-nits (puni, probably "dark"): Descendants of Puvah, of the tribe of Issachar (Numbers 26:23; compare Genesis 46:13; Judges 10:1; 1 Chronicles 7:1). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PUNITES'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

PULSE puls (zero'-im (Daniel 1:12 margin, "herbs"), zere'onim (Daniel 1:16); compare zerua`, "sowing seed" (Leviticus 11:37), and zeru'im, "things sown" (Isaiah 61:11)): (1) In Daniel 1:12,16, it must mean herbs or vegetables grown from seeds; a vegetable diet is what is implied. (2) In 2 Samuel 17:28, "pulse" after "parched" is not in the origin

PUNISHMENT, EVERLASTING pun'-ish-ment: I. PRELIMINARY ASSUMPTIONS 1. Survival after Death 2. Retribution for Sin 3. Conscious Suffering in Future II. SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT 1. Old Testament and Jewish Conceptions 2. New Testament Teaching (1) "Eternal" (2) Equivalent Expressions (3) The Last Judgment 3. Teaching of Analogy III. DIFFICULTIES

PULPIT pool'-pit: Nehemiah 8:4, "Ezra the scribe stood upon a mighdol of wood." Mighdol is one of the commonest words in the Old Testament and means simply a high object--here a scaffolding or platform (bema, 1 Esdras 9:42). "Tower" (so the Revised Version margin) gives an entirely wrong picture. Copyright Statement These files are public domain.

PUL pul: (1) An Assyrian king (2 Kings 15:19). See TIGLATH-PILESER. (2) An African country and people (Isaiah 66:19). See PUT. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PUL'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

PUHITES pu'-hits (puthi). See PUTHITES. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PUHITES'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

PUBLIUS pub'-li-us (Poplios, from the Latin praenomen Publius, derived from populus, "popular"; according to Ramsay it is the Greek form of the Latin nomen Popilius; the Greek title meaning "first," applied to Publius in Acts 28:7, was an official one, and has been found on an inscription from the island of Gaulus near Malta (compare Bockh, Corpus