G4027 – perikatharma – περικάθαρμα – filth
- Strong’s ID:
- G4027
- Greek Word:
- περικάθαρμα
- Transliteration:
- perikatharma
- Pronunciation:
- per-ee-kath’-ar-mah
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “perikatharma” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from a compound of G4012 and G2508; something cleaned off all around, i.e. refuse (figuratively):—filth.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) off scouring, refuse
2) metaphorically
2a) the most abject and despicable men
2b) the price of expiation or redemption, because the Greeks used to apply the term “katharmata” 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 Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.