Strong's Number G4067

Transliteration:

peripsema{per-ip'-say-mah}

Word Origin:

from a comparative of 4012 and psao (to rub)

TDNT:

6:84,*

Part of Speech:

noun neuter

Usage in the KJV:

offscouring 1

Total: 1

Definition:

what is wiped off
dirt rubbed off
off scouring, scrapings The Athenians, in order to avert public calamities, yearly threw a criminal into the sea as an offering to Poseidon; hence the term became used for an expiatory offering, a ransom, for our child, i.e. in comparison with the saving of our son's life let it be to us a despicable and worthless thing. It is used of a man who in behalf of religion undergoes dire trials for the salvation of others.