Strong G915βάρβαρος
barbarian
- Transliteration
- barbaros
- Pronunciation
- bar'-bar-os
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Of uncertain derivation; a foreigner (that is non Greek): - barbarian (-rous).
Detailed definition
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)
[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)
In the Bible
Strong G915 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- barbarian3
- barbarians1
- people1
First verses
- Acts 28:2And 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.
- 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.
Occurrences by book
Detailed Greek dictionary
βάρβᾰρος, ον,
barbarous, i.e. non-Greek, foreign, not in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (but compare βαρβαρόφωνος); β. ψυχαί 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 107)]; especially as substantive βάρβαροι, οἱ, originally all non-Greek-speaking peoples, then specially of the Medes and Persians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 255, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.58, etc.: generally, opposed to Ἕλληνες, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 262d, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1252b5, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.2.28; βαρβάρων Ἕλληνας ἄρχειν εἰκός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1400; β. καὶ δοῦλον ταὐτὸ φύσει 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1252b9; οἱ β. δουλικώτεροι τὰ ἤθη φύσει τῶν Ἑλλήνων [prev. work] 1285a20)]; β. πόλεμον war with the barbarians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.36 codices)]; ἡ βάρβαρος (i.e. γῆ), opposed to αἱ Ἑλληνίδες πόλεις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 187, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.16.)] adverb -ρως, opposed to Ἑλληνικῶς,[Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 3.3.)]
2 especially of language, φωνὴ β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1051, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 341c; γλῶσσα β. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1263, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.57, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus [prev. cited] above, etc.)]; συλλραφαί[Refs 4th c.BC+ (Hippias 6 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; of birds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 199.)] adverb, βαρβάρως, ὠνόμασται have foreign names, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 10.3.17.)]
3 Grammars, of bad Greek, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 5.20.5)]; τὸ β., of style, opposed to Ἑλληνικόν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.64.)]
II after the Persian war, brutal, rude, ἀμαθὴς καὶ β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 492; τὸ τῆς φύσεως β. καὶ θεοῖς ἐχθρόν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.150; σκαιὸς καὶ β. τὸν τρόπον [prev. author] 26.17; β. ἀνηλεής τε 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 477)]: comparative -ώτερος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)] Eph.2.4: superlative, πάντων βαρβαρώτατος θεῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1573, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.98, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.34.)]
III used by Jews of Greeks, [LXX (LXX.2Mac.2.21.)]
IV name for various plasters, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Andromachus Poeta Medicus and Herasap. 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.555. (Onomatopoeic _accusative_ to 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.2.28.))]
barbarous, i.e. non-Greek, foreign, not in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (but compare βαρβαρόφωνος); β. ψυχαί 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 107)]; especially as substantive βάρβαροι, οἱ, originally all non-Greek-speaking peoples, then specially of the Medes and Persians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 255, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.58, etc.: generally, opposed to Ἕλληνες, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 262d, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1252b5, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.2.28; βαρβάρων Ἕλληνας ἄρχειν εἰκός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1400; β. καὶ δοῦλον ταὐτὸ φύσει 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1252b9; οἱ β. δουλικώτεροι τὰ ἤθη φύσει τῶν Ἑλλήνων [prev. work] 1285a20)]; β. πόλεμον war with the barbarians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.36 codices)]; ἡ βάρβαρος (i.e. γῆ), opposed to αἱ Ἑλληνίδες πόλεις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 187, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.16.)] adverb -ρως, opposed to Ἑλληνικῶς,[Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 3.3.)]
2 especially of language, φωνὴ β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1051, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 341c; γλῶσσα β. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1263, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.57, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus [prev. cited] above, etc.)]; συλλραφαί[Refs 4th c.BC+ (Hippias 6 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; of birds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 199.)] adverb, βαρβάρως, ὠνόμασται have foreign names, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 10.3.17.)]
3 Grammars, of bad Greek, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 5.20.5)]; τὸ β., of style, opposed to Ἑλληνικόν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.64.)]
II after the Persian war, brutal, rude, ἀμαθὴς καὶ β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 492; τὸ τῆς φύσεως β. καὶ θεοῖς ἐχθρόν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.150; σκαιὸς καὶ β. τὸν τρόπον [prev. author] 26.17; β. ἀνηλεής τε 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 477)]: comparative -ώτερος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)] Eph.2.4: superlative, πάντων βαρβαρώτατος θεῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1573, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.98, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.34.)]
III used by Jews of Greeks, [LXX (LXX.2Mac.2.21.)]
IV name for various plasters, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Andromachus Poeta Medicus and Herasap. 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.555. (Onomatopoeic _accusative_ to 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.2.28.))]