περίψημα, -ros, τό; (fr. περιψάω ‘to wipe off all round’; and this fr. περί [q. v. III. 1], and Wa ‘to wipe,’ ‘rub’), prop. what is wiped off; dirt rubbed off; offscouring, scrapings: 1 Co. iv. 13, used in the same sense as περικάθαρμα, q.v. Suidas and other Greek lexicographers s.v. 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 tosay) let it become an expiatory offering, a ransom, for our child, i. 6. in comparison with the saving of our son’s life let it be to us a despicable and worthless thing, Tob. v. 18 (where see Fritzsche; [ef. also Miiller on Barn. ep. 4,9]). It is used of a man who in behalf of religion undergoes dire trials for the salvation of others, Ignat. ad Eph. 8, 1; 18,1; [see Bp. Lghtft.’s note on the former passage ].

περίψημα peripsēma 1x

filth which is wiped off; met. 1 Cor. 4:13*

**† περί-ψημα, -τος, τό

(< περιψράω, to wipe off all round), [in LXX: To 5:18*;]

that which is wiped off, offscouring: metaph. (assoc. with περικάθαρμα, q.v.), I Co 4:13 (and so prob., To 5:18, as EV; but v. Thayer, s.v., for the meaning expiation, ransom, in To; and cf. LS, s.v. κάθαρμα; Lft., Notes, 200 f., and on Ign., Eph., 8).†

περίψημα, as distinguished from περικάθαρμα (7.v.), the ““ rinsing,” is the ‘‘scraping” ofa dirty vessel. It is found in Tob tas where the meaning may be either ‘‘offscouring ’’ (cf. Ignat. Eph. xviii. 1) or *‘ransom.” For this latter meaning cf. the phrase περίψημα ἡμῶν γενοῦ, which, according to Photius /ex., was pronounced over the criminal who at Athens was flung into the sea as a propitiatory offering to avert public calamity. From this, περίψημά σου came to be used as an epistolary formula much like ‘‘your humble and devoted servant ’’: cf. Ignat. 221. viii. 1 with Lightfoot’s note ad /., and especially the Festal Letter of Dionysius of Alexandria (Eus. HZ. vii. 22. 7), who says that this ‘‘ popular saying which always seems a mere expression of courtesy” (τὸ δημῶδες ῥῆμα μόνης ἀεὶ δοκοῦν φιλοφροσύνης ἔχεσθαι) was translated into action by those Christians who, during the plague, gave their lives in tending the sick. In this connexion cf. the use of the word in an epitaph by a wife on her husband—edoxet, κύριέ μου Μάξιμε, ἐγώ σου περίψημα τῆς καλῆς ψυχῆς (cited by Thieling Der Hellenismus in Kleinafrika, p. 34). , TTETELVOS For the verb Herwerden (Lex. σοῦ. περιψῆν) cites an inscr. from Delos of B.c. 250, BCH xxvii. (1903), p. 74°4 σπόγγοι περιψῆσαι τὰ ἀναθήματα.

περίψημα (peripsēma) — scum. περίψ-ημα, ατος, τό, anything wiped off, offscouring, of a vile person (or scapegoat), [NT+9th c.AD+]; π. σου your humble servant, [Refs]; peripsuma su (sic), Dessau [Refs]