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Lexicon :: Strong's G915 - barbaros

Aa
βάρβαρος
Transliteration
barbaros (Key)
Pronunciation
bar'-bar-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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TDNT Reference: 1:546,94

Strong’s Definitions

βάρβαρος bárbaros, bar'-bar-os; of uncertain derivation; a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek):—barbarian(-rous).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G915 in the following manner: barbarian (5x), barbarous (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G915 in the following manner: barbarian (5x), barbarous (1x).

  1. one whose speech is rude, rough and harsh

  2. one who speaks a foreign or strange language which is not understood by another

  3. used by the Greeks of any foreigner ignorant of the Greek language, whether mental or moral, with the added notion after the Persian war, of rudeness and brutality. The word is used in the N.T. without the idea of reproachfulness.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βάρβαρος bárbaros, bar'-bar-os; of uncertain derivation; a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek):—barbarian(-rous).
STRONGS G915:
βάρβαρος, -ον;
1. properly, one whose speech is rude, rough, harsh, as if repeating the syllables βαρβάρ (cf. Strabo 14, 2, 28, p. 662; ὠνοματοπεποίηται ἡ λέξις, Etym. Magn. [188, 11 (but Gaisf. reads βράγχος for βάρβαρος); cf. Curtius, § 394; Vanicek, p. 561]); hence,
2. one who speaks a foreign or strange language which is not understood by another (Herodotus 2, 158 βαρβάρους πάντας οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι καλέουσι τοὺς μὴ σφίσι ὁμογλώσσους, Ovid. trist. 5, 10, 37 barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli); so 1 Corinthians 14:11.
3. The Greeks used βάρβαρος of any foreigner ignorant of the Greek language and the Greek culture, whether mental or moral, with the added notion, after the Persian war, of rudeness and brutality. Hence, the word is applied in the N. T., but not reproachfully, in Acts 28:2, 4, to the inhabitants of Malta [i. e. Μελίτη, which see], who were of Phœnician or Punic origin; and to those nations that had, indeed, some refinement of manners, but not the opportunity of becoming Christians, as the Scythians, Colossians 3:11 [but cf. Bp. Lightfoot at the passage]. But the phrase Ἕλληνές τε καὶ βάρβαροι forms also a periphrasis for all peoples, or indicates their diversity yet without reproach to foreigners (Plato, Theaet., p. 175 a.; Isocrates, Euag c. 17, p. 192 b.; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 2, 1 and in other writings); so in Romans 1:14. (In Philo de Abr. § 45 under the end of all nations not Jews. Josephus, b. j. prooem. 1 reckons the Jews among barbarians.) Cf. Grimm on 2 Macc. 2:21, p. 61; [Bp. Lightfoot on Col. as above; B. D. under the word Barbarian].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Corinthians
14:11
Acts
28:2; 28:4
Romans
1:14
Colossians
3:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G915 matches the Greek βάρβαρος (barbaros),
which occurs 6 times in 5 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:2 - And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:4 - And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:14 - I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:11 - But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:11 - Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.
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