Word

περικάθαρμα

perikátharma · G4027 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. offscourings, garbage, scum, rubbish

    Rubbish, resulting from the process of cleansing

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 4:13 when we are slandered, we reply as friends; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Near synonyms 1 word
περίψωμα perípsōma · G4067 · offscourings, garbage, scum
περικάθαρμα and περίψωμα both denote refuse or scrapings, used figuratively of persons regarded as the lowest of the low. περικάθαρμα emphasizes what is comprehensively cleaned off, while περίψωμα emphasizes what is rubbed or brushed away; both name the same kind of contemptible refuse.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Offscourings, garbage, scum, rubbish79.53
περικάθαρμα names refuse scraped away and discarded, used figuratively of how the world regarded the apostles. Paul writes, “We have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now” (1 Corinthians 4:13, where περικάθαρμα is rendered “the scum of the world”).
Word family 11 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon περικαθαρματος, τό (περικαθαίρω, to cleanse on all sides (περί, III. 1)), off-scouring,…
περικαθαρματος, τό (περικαθαίρω, to cleanse on all sides (περί, III. 1)), off-scouring, refuse: plural, τά περικαθάρματα τοῦ κόσμου (A. V., the filth of the world), metaphorically, the most abject and despicable men, 1 Cor 4:13. (Epictetus diss. 3, 22, 78;purgamenta urbis, Curt. 8, 5, 8; 10, 2, 7; (see Wetstein on 1 Corinthians, the passage cited); the Sept. once for כֹּפֶר, the price of expiation or redemption, Prov 21:18, because the Greeks used to apply the term καθαρματα to victims sacrificed to make expiation for the people, and even to criminals who were maintained at the public expense, that on the outbreak of a pestilence or other calamity they might be offered as sacrifices to make expiation for the state.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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