Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extract or selection from a book, especially a reading from a Scripture that forms part of a church service.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun 2. In ancient prosody, a group of two or more systems.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rhetoric A section of
text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech. - noun A passage of
Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This pericope in Ezra also tells us, there can be no Gospel without the Blues.
Rev. Otis Moss III: A Blue Note Gospel Rev. Otis Moss III 2011
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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.
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This is an interpretation that fits with the overall point of this pericope.
Derek Flood: The More I Follow Jesus, The Less I Like His Teaching Derek Flood 2011
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This is an interpretation that fits with the overall point of this pericope.
Derek Flood: The More I Follow Jesus, The Less I Like His Teaching Derek Flood 2011
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This pericope in Ezra also tells us, there can be no Gospel without the Blues.
Rev. Otis Moss III: A Blue Note Gospel Rev. Otis Moss III 2011
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I've often seen the criterion of embarrassment offered as support for the historical core of the Empty Tomb pericope.
Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010
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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?
Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010
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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.
Jeremiah 7:22 as Evidence for the Date of Leviticus James F. McGrath 2010
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In the RSV Catholic Version the pericope reads as follows: Isaiah 11:3 “And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.”
Part II: Piety the Savory Gift elena maria vidal 2009
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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.
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken? James F. McGrath 2009
qms commented on the word pericope
Theologians tell us there’s hope
Of limiting vile error’s scope.
The good can endure
With hearts that are pure
And doses of strong pericope.
This limerick left in place like a miscreant rotting on the gallows. Beware, ye hasty! (See above.)
March 20, 2018
bilby commented on the word pericope
Pronunciation for those who embark on the epic voyage of scrolling to the bottom of the page is like PERRY-ka-pee.
March 20, 2018
qms commented on the word pericope
Now isn’t that bilby a nuisance. I do thank him, though I would represent the pronunciation as purr-RICK-a-pee.
The audio pronunciations never seem to work on my iPad, where most composition gets done. I will be more wary in future.
There once was a preacher in Chicopee
Beset by severe insipidity.
On Sundays he normally
Abandoned his homily
And served up a meal of pericope.
March 21, 2018
bilby commented on the word pericope
Move over Nantucket, Chicopee has a limerick too.
March 21, 2018