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GreekG0915Adjective

βάρβαρος

barbaros

5Occurrences
G0915Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)

of uncertain derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
barbarous, barbarian, strange to Greek language and culture (and also, after the Persian war, with the added sense of brutal, rude): (see Lft., in l., and Notes, 249).
LXX: (114):1 (לעז), (36) (בּער), *

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Adjective

Morphology Code

G:A

Full Description

Greek Adjective

Occurrences

βάρβαρος appears 5 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Acts
2
1 Corinthians
1
Colossians
1
Romans
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 14:11BSB

If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.

Acts 28:2BSB

The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.

Acts 28:4BSB

When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Colossians 3:11BSB

Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Romans 1:14BSB

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.