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An extract or selection from a book, especially a reading from a Scripture that forms part of a church service.
[Late Latin pericopē, from Greek perikopē, a cutting around, section, from perikoptein, to cut around : peri-, peri- + koptein, to cut.]
pericopal pe·ric'o·pal (pə-rĭk'ə-pəl) or per'i·cop'ic (pĕr'ĭ-kŏp'ĭk) adj.A pericope (pur-IC-op-ee) (Greek περικοπη, "a cutting-out") in rhetoric is a set of verses which form one coherent unit or thought, thus forming a short passage suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture.
Manuscripts, often illuminated, called Pericopes, are normally abbreviated Gospel Books only containing the sections of the Gospels required for the Masses of the liturgical year. Notable examples, both Ottonian, are the Pericopes of Henry II and the Salzburg Pericopes.
Lectionaries are normally made up of pericopes containing the Epistle and\or Gospel readings for the liturgical year. A pericope consisting of passages from different parts of a single book, or from different books of the Bible, and linked together into a single reading is called a concatenation.
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Français (French)
n. - coupure circulaire, passage d'une oeuvre
Deutsch (German)
n. - kurzer Abschnitt
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - περικοπή
Português (Portuguese)
n. - citação de um livro (f) (como uma passagem da Bíblia)
Español (Spanish)
n. - pequeño fragmento de un trabajo literario
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kort Bibelstycke
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
从书中选出的章节, 圣课
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 從書中選出的章節, 聖課
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 短章句, 節, 聖書抜粋, ペリコーペ
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - פרשת-השבוע, פיסקה
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