adjective
barbaros
Strong’sG915
a foreigner who speaks neither Greek nor Latin
stem barbar-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
βάρβαρος, -ον
(prob. onomatop., descriptive of unintelligible sounds), [in LXX: Ps 113 (114):1 (לעז), Ez 21:31 (36) (בּער), II Mac 2:21 4:25 10:4, III Mac 3:24*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G915 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbar'-bar-os
a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesbarbarian(-rous).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
barbarous, i.e. non-Greek, foreign, not in Refs 8th c.BC+; especially as substantive βάρβαροι, οἱ, originally all non-Greek-speaking peoples, then specially of the Medes and Persians, Refs 5th c.BC+; β. πόλεμον war with the barbarians, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ βάρβαρος (i.e. γῆ), opposed to αἱ Ἑλληνίδες πόλεις, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb -ρως, opposed to Ἑλληνικῶς,Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 especially of language, φωνὴ β. Refs 5th c.BC+; συλλραφαίRefs 4th c.BC+; of birds, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb, βαρβάρως, ὠνόμασται have foreign names, Refs 1st c.BC+
3 Grammars, of bad Greek, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὸ β., of style, opposed to Ἑλληνικόν, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II after the Persian war, brutal, rude, ἀμαθὴς καὶ β. Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -ώτεροςRefs 5th c.BC+
III used by Jews of Greeks, LXX
IV name for various plasters, Refs 1st c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | barbaros3×βάρβαρος | barbaras | barbarem | barbarois2×βάρβαροι | barbarais | barbareim |
| object accusative | barbaron | barbaran | barbaroin | barbarain | ||
| direct address vocative | barbaror | barbarar | barbaroir | barbarair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | barbarou | barbarau | barbareu | barbaroiu | barbaraiu | barbareiu |
| to, for dative | barbaro | barbara | barbare | barbaroi1×βαρβάροις | barbarai | barbarei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
barbar is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
barbaros“foreigner”subjectnominative singular3×
1 Corinthians 14:11… dunamian tau fōnau, emi to lalarōnto barbaros kai tos lalarōntos en mi barbaros.… of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is …
1 Corinthians 14:11… barbaros kai tos lalarōntos en mi barbaros.… the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.
Colossians 3:11… Hellēnos kai Ioudaios, peritomas kai akrobustias, barbaros, Skuthos, doulos, eleutheros, alla teim panteim …… Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ …
barbarois“natives”subjectnominative plural2×
Acts 28:2“natives”tois tē barbarois parechale ouk tan tucharantan filanthrōpian ni, …The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all …
Acts 28:4“natives”hōs de horala tois barbarois kremannuorōntem tem thērem ek tau cheirau …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 …
barbaroi“barbarians”to, fordative plural1×
Romans 1:14“barbarians”Hellēnoi tē kai barbaroi, sofoi tē kai anoētoi ofeiletos amō;I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.