Word: perikaqarma

Pronounce: per-ee-kath'-ar-mah

Strongs Number: G4027

Orig: from a compound of 4012 and 2508; something cleaned off all around, i.e. refuse (figuratively):--filth. G4012

Use: TDNT-3:430,381 Noun Neuter

Heb Strong: H3724

1) off scouring, refuse
2) metaph.
2a) the most abject and despicable men
2b) the price of expiation or redemption, because the Greeks used to apply the term "katharmata" 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