Barbarian
βάρβαροςStrong’s G0915barbaros
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Barbaros is the Greek word usually translated “foreigner”, “natives” and “barbarians”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.”
Meaning
Usually translated “foreigner”, “natives” and “barbarians”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- a foreigner 2
- the natives 1
- natives 1
- to barbarians 1
- barbarian 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 2
- Romans 1
- 1 Corinthians 1
- Colossians 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
- Romans 1:14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
- 1 Corinthians 14:11Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
- Colossians 3:11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Greek dictionary
βάρβαρος barbaros · barbarian
βάρβαρος, -ον (prob. onomatop., descriptive of unintelligible sounds), [in LXX: Ps 113 (114):1 (לעז), Eze.21:31 (36) (בּער), 2Ma.2:21 4:25 10:4, 3Ma.3:24 * ;] barbarous, barbarian, strange to Greek language and culture (and also, after the Persian war, with the added sense of brutal, rude): Act.28:2, 4 Rom.1:14, 1Co.14:11, Col.3:11 (see Lft., in l., and Notes, 249).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “barbarian” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BARBA'RIAN, noun
[Latin barbarus;. The sense is, foreign, wild, fierce.]
- A man in his rude, savage state; an uncivilized person.
- A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
- A foreigner.
All definitions and other forms of “barbarian”
BARBA'RIAN, adjective
Belonging to savages; rude; uncivilized.
- Cruel; inhuman.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.