Noun
1. A selection or extract from a book.
2. A portion of sacred writing read in a divine service; lesson; lection.
Quotes
...a single verse (and, in some cases, even a pericope)
is too small a unit to split analytically into fragments.
-- Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder: the Invention of the
Bible and the Talmuds, 1998
Origin
Pericope came to English in the mid-1600’s, and is
ultimately derived from the Greekperikopḗ meaning "a cutting."
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