Word: periyhma

Pronounce: per-ip'-say-mah

Strongs Number: G4067

Orig: from a comparative of 4012 and psao (to rub); something brushed all around, i.e. off-scrapings (figuratively, scum):--offscouring. G4012

Use: TDNT-6:84,* Noun Neuter

Heb Strong:

1) what is wiped off
2) dirt rubbed off
3) 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.