Offscouring
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OFFSCOURING

of'-skour-ing: This strong and expressive word occurs only once in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament. The weeping prophet uses it as he looks upon his erstwhile fair and holy city, despoiled, defiled, derided by the profane, the enemies of God and of His people (Lamentations 3:45, cechi). The favored people, whose city lies in heaps and is patrolled by the heathen, are hailed and held up as the scrapings, the offscouring, the offal of the earth. They are humbled to earth, crushed into the dust, carried away to be the slaves of licentious idolaters. The haughty, cruel, cutting boastfulness of the victors covered Israel with contumely.

In 1 Corinthians 4:13 the greatest of the apostles reminds the prosperous and self-satisfied Corinthinns that they, the apostles, were "made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things." In such contempt were they held by the unbelieving world and by false apostles. The strange, strong word (peripsema) should remind us what it cost in former times to be a true servant of Christ.

G.H. Gerberding

Greek
4067. peripsema -- offscouring
... offscouring. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: peripsema Phonetic Spelling:
(per-ip'-so-mah) Short Definition: scrapings, offscourings Definition ...
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4027. perikatharma -- that which is cleaned off, refuse
... Noun, Neuter Transliteration: perikatharma Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-kath'-ar-mah)
Short Definition: refuse, filth Definition: refuse, offscouring, filth. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
5501a. sechi -- offscouring
... sechi. 5501b . offscouring. Transliteration: sechi Short Definition: offscouring.
Word Origin from sachah Definition offscouring NASB Word Usage offscouring ( ...
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5501. cchiy -- offscouring
... offscouring. Transliteration: cchiy Phonetic Spelling: (seh-khee') Short Definition:
offscouring. offscouring From cachah; refuse (as swept off) -- offscouring. ...
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Library

The Believing Thief
... to the cross, our Lord was mocked by a ribald crowd, and was dying in agony: then
was he "numbered with the transgressors," and made as the offscouring of all ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 35 1889/the believing thief.htm

The Glory of the Cross.
... Footnotes: [606] Again, peripsema, translated "offscouring," 1 Corinthians
4:13. [607] Comp. 1 1 Corinthians 1:18. [608] 1 Corinthians 1:20. ...
/.../the epistle of ignatius to the ephesians/chapter xviii the glory of the.htm

Preface
... For it was just those Christians,' who were represented by the chief authors of
antiquity as the offscouring of all things,' who were hated and persecuted as ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/three friends of god/preface.htm

Second Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to Brotherly Love.
... they who seek to serve, to benefit and save the world by declaring the good news,
must be, as Paul says, "as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/second sunday after trinity exhortation.htm

Humdrum
... "As the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, unto this day.".
We walked along the road bordered with beautiful banyan trees. ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter iii humdrum.htm

Chapter v.
... hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being defamed, we
entreat: we are made as the filth of the earth, and as the offscouring of all ...
//christianbookshelf.org/paley/evidences of christianity/chapter v.htm

The Church of Christ
... Not long shall it be ere they shall come"shall come from distant lands wher'er they
rest or roam; and she who has been the offscouring of all things, whose ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the church of christ.htm

The Dark Shadow
... will find that "the fellowship of His sufferings" is a needful result of so doing,
and that to be hated of all men and to become as the offscouring of all ...
/.../bevan/three friends of god/chapter li the dark shadow.htm

An Exhortation to the People of God not to be Discouraged in their ...
... scoffed and derided; as the world hated the Lord Jesus Christ, so will it hate you:
but be not discouraged, though we are here the scorn and offscouring of all ...
/.../selected sermons of george whitefield/an exhortation to the people.htm

Our Hope is not the Conversion of the World.
... Like their Master, they, too, were despised and rejected of men. The apostles were
everywhere spoken against and regarded as the offscouring of the earth. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the redeemers return/1 our hope is not.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.
Thesaurus
Offscouring (2 Occurrences)
...OFFSCOURING. of'-skour-ing: This strong and expressive word occurs only once in
the Old Testament and once in the New Testament. ...Offscouring (2 Occurrences). ...
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Off-scouring (1 Occurrence)
Off-scouring. Offscouring, Off-scouring. Offset . Multi-Version Concordance ...
(WEB ASV). Offscouring, Off-scouring. Offset . Reference Bible.
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Officiated (1 Occurrence)

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Intreat (13 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world,
and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. (KJV). ...
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Insulted (18 Occurrences)
... (WEB). 1 Corinthians 4:13 insulted, we entreat: we are become as the
offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now. (DBY). ...
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Persecution (22 Occurrences)
... The Christians, whose lives were pure and virtuous and beneficent, were spoken of
as being the offscouring of the earth. (2) Reference in 1 Peter. ...
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Bible Concordance
Offscouring (2 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Lamentations 3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

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