G915: βάρβαρος
bárbaros · “barbarian”
Definition
a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)
KJV translates it as: barbarian(-rous)
Word origin: of uncertain derivation;
Extended definition
[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).†
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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G915 is translated
- the natives ×1
- natives ×1
- to barbarians, ×1
- a foreigner ×1
- a foreigner; ×1
- barbarian, ×1
Bible verses with G915 (bárbaros)
Bárbaros appears in 5 verses.
- Acts 28:2
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.
- Acts 28:4
And 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 1:14
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
- 1 Corinthians 14:11
Therefore 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 3:11
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.