Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An extract or selection from a book, especially a reading from a Scripture that forms part of a church service.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An extract; a selection from a book; specifically, in the ancient Christian church, a passage of Scripture appointed to be read on certain Sundays and festive occasions.
- n. 2. In ancient prosody, a group of two or more systems.
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech.
- n. A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.
Etymologies
- From late Latin pericope, from Greek περικοπή ‘section’, from peri- + κοπή ‘cutting’, from κόπτειν ‘to cut’. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin pericopē, from Greek perikopē, a cutting around, section, from perikoptein, to cut around : peri-, peri- + koptein, to cut. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is an interpretation that fits with the overall point of this pericope.”
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“This pericope in Ezra also tells us, there can be no Gospel without the Blues.”
“It is important and it will come, and is a weakness I need to address, but I have other inclinations, can live with the ambiguities being pretty happily focused on a little portion; so much so that I even have the fault of sometimes failing to look ahead of my weekly pericope.”
“And how "obvious" are the reasons for the inclusion of the Lazarus pericope in John where no such story exists in our other sources as an off-the-cuff example?”
“If, however, Jer 7:22-26 is read in line with Jer 2:1-8 and the 'little credo' in Deut 26:5-10, it might rather reflect the time before the insertion of the Sinai pericope and sacrificial laws into the wilderness-conquest narratives.”
“I've often seen the criterion of embarrassment offered as support for the historical core of the Empty Tomb pericope.”
“In the RSV Catholic Version the pericope reads as follows: Isaiah 11:3 “And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.””
“Stephen, I don't see how an event that is said to happen several days later and naturally marks a new pericope provides a more appropriate context for interpretation than the material immediately preceding, which is the immediate context.”
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“Please note that the part about left and right in his kingdom is based the Matthean form of that pericope.”
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
“The immediately preceeding verse suggests one thing and the immediately following pericope suggests another.”
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pericope’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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for school!
squally, monetization, honorificabilitud..., hornswoggle, collywobbles, slangwhanger, filibuster, cliona, beknow, gallimaufry, sylvan, aide-de-camp and 31 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
epithalamium, hustings, verger, atheling, moue, pendulous, pendragon, funicular, pericope, fettle, eleemosynary, moot and 161 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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Art, Literature and Music
caesura, selah, coda, tessitura, timbre, prelude, addolorato, epithalamium, pastiche, ersatz, camaieu, aubade and 28 more...
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chrisjones's Words
cerebral, precarious, precis, pilfer, attitudinal, structural, covenant, gospel, conjoin, ruin, viscous, rook and 28 more...
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Old School Commentators
synecdoche, hyperbole, thresh, contrite, hendiadys, condescension, contrition, yieldedness, propitiation, chiliastic, synecdochically, proselyte and 65 more...
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selvaratnam's Words
oblation, moot, pejoratively, doyen, taxonomy, kitsch, meme, diasporan, zeitgeist, triperspectivalism, ineffable, rhetoric and 11 more...
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