περικάθαρμα, 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, 1Co_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 λΙΜτΖψ, the price of expiation or redemption, Pro_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.) STRONGS NT 4027a: περικαθίζωπερικαθίζω: 1 aorist participle περικαθισας; 1. in classical Greek transitive, to bid or make to sit around, to invest, besiege, a city, a fortress. 2. intransitive, to sit around, be seated around ; so in Luk_22:55 Lachmann text

περικάθαρμα perikatharma 1x pr. filth; met. refuse, outcast, 1Co_4:13

† περι -κάθαρμα , -τος , τό ( < περικαθαίρω , to purify on all sides or completely, Deu_18:10 , Jos_5:4 , 4Ma_1:29 * ), [in LXX : Pro_21:18 ( H3724 ) * ;] 1. a victim, expiation (Pr, l.c ). 2. refuse, rubbish: pl ., 1Co_4:13 ( v. ICC , in l ).†

περικάθαρμα [page 506] a term of the deepest opprobrium, drawn from the rinsing of a dirty vessel. In the only place in which it occurs in the NT, 1Co_4:13 , there may be some reference to the fact that it was the most wretched and outcast, who used to be sacrificed as expiatory offerings : cf. Pro_21:11 and Epict. iii. 22. 78. Possibly some cry of this sort, anticipating the Christiani ad leones of the martyrdoms, had been raised against P(aul) by the Ephesian populace (cf. xv. 32; also Acts xxii. 22) (Findlay EGT ad 1Co_4:13 ). The word is fully illustrated by Wetstein ad l.c . : see also Lietzmann in HZNT. The verb ( Deu_18:10 ) is found in Didache iii. 4 μηδὲ ἐπαοιδὸς μηδὲ μαθηματικὸς μηδὲ περικαθαίρων .

περικάθαρμα περι-κάθαρμα, ατος, τό, "an off-scouring, refuse", NTest.

περι-κάθαρμα, -τος, τό (περικαθαίρω, to purify on all sides or completely, Deu.18:10, Jos.5:4, 4Ma.1:29*), [in LXX: Pro.21:18 (כֹּפֶר)* ;] __1. a victim, expiation (Pr, l.with). __2. refuse, rubbish: pl., 1Co.4:13 (see ICC, in l).† (AS)