Word Summary
peripsēma: offscouring
Original Word: περίψημαTransliteration: peripsēma
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ip'-so-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: offscouring
Meaning: offscouring
Strong's Concordance
dirt, scum
From a comparative of peri and psao (to rub); something brushed all around, i.e. Off-scrapings (figuratively, scum) -- offscouring.
see GREEK peri
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4067: περίψημαπερίψημα,
περιψηματος,
τό (from
περιψάω 'to wipe off all round'; and this from
περί (which see III. 1), and
ψάω 'to wipe,' 'rub'), properly,
what is wiped off; dirt rubbed off'; offscouring, scrapings:
1 Corinthians 4:13, used in the same sense as
περικάθαρμα, which see
Suidas and other Greek lexicographers under the word relate that the Athenians, in order to avert public calamities, yearly threw a criminal into the sea as an offering to Poseidon; hence,
ἀργύριον ...
περίψημα τοῦ παιδίου ἡμῶν γένοιτο (as if to say) let it become an expiatory offering, a ransom, for our child, i. e. in comparison with the saving of our son's life let it be to us a despicable and worthless thing, Tobit 5:18 (where see Fritzsche; (cf. also Müller on the Epistle of Barnabas 4, 9 [ET])). It is used of a man who in behalf of religion undergoes dire trials for the salvation of others,
Ignatius ad Eph. 8, 1 [ET]; 18, 1 [ET]; (see
Lightfoot's note on the former passage).