Quick Definition
περικάθαρμα, ατος, τό n.n. refuse, filth
Strong's Definition
something cleaned off all around, i.e. refuse (figuratively)
Derivation: from a compound of G4012 (περί) and G2508 (καθαίρω);
KJV Usage: filth
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
περι-κάθαρμα, -ros, τό, (meptxabaipw, to cleanse on all sides [mepi, III. 17}, off-scouring, refuse: plur. τὰ περικ. τοῦ κόσμου [ A. V. the filth of the world], metaph. the most abject and despicable men, 1 Co. iv. 13. (Epict. diss. 8, 22, 78; purgamenta urbis, Curt. 8, 5,8; 10, 2, 7; [see Wetstein on 1 Co. |. 6.1; Sept. once for 753, the price of expiation or redemption, Prov. xxi. 18, because the Grks. used to apply the term καθάρματα 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.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
περικάθαρμα perikatharma 1x
pr. filth; met. refuse, outcast, 1 Cor. 4:13*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† περι-κάθαρμα, -τος, τό
(< περικαθαίρω, to purify on all sides or completely, De 18:10, Jos 5:4, IV Mac 1:29*), [in LXX: Pr 21:18 (כֹּפֶר)*;]
a victim, expiation (Pr 21:18).
refuse, rubbish: pl., I Co 4:13 (v. ICC, in l.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
περικάθαρμα, a term of the deepest opprobrium, drawn from the ing” of a dirty vessel. In the only place in which it occurs in the NT, 1 Cor 413, 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. Prov 211} 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. 325 also Acts xxii. 22)” (Findlay 567 ad 1 Cor 415). The word is fully illustrated by Wetstein ad /.c.: see also Lietzmann in HZN7. The verb (Deut 1819) is found in Didache iii. 4 μηδὲ ἐπαοιδὸς μηδὲ μαθηματικὸς μηδὲ περικαθαίρων. ‘*rins>
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
περικάθαρμα (perikatharma) — garbage. περικᾰθᾰρ-μα, ατος, τό, expiation,[LXX]
II. ={κάθαρμα}[NT+2nd c.AD+]