noun · neuter

peripsēmem

Greekπερίψημα (peripsēma)

Strong’sG4067

scrapings, offscourings

stem peripsēm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur

Translated as

offscouring1×

What it means

**† 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).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4067 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidper-ip'-so-mah

something brushed all around, i.e. off-scrapings (figuratively, scum)

Fromfrom a comparative of G4012 and ψάω (to rub);

King Jamesoffscouring.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	peripsēmem1×περίψημα	peripsēmeim
of, belonging to genitive	peripsēmeu	peripsēmeiu
to, for dative	peripsēme	peripsēmei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

peripsēmstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

peripsēme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

peripsēmem“offscouring”subject or objectdirect singular1×

1 Corinthians 4:13“offscouring”dusfēmirōtois parakalanō; hōs perikatharmeim tou kosmou ginina, panteiu peripsēmem heōs arti.when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.