Strong's #4027: perikatharma (pronounced per-ee-kath'-ar-mah)

from a compound of 4012 and 2508; something cleaned off all around, i.e. refuse (figuratively):--filth.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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perikatharma

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

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from a compound of G4012 and G2508

Citing in TDNT: 3:430, 381

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

1 Corinthians 4:13: "we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things"