Strong's G915 · Greek

βάρβαρος

barbaros · bar'-bar-os

of uncertain derivation; a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

βάρβαρος (G915)

6 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 *;] barbarous , barbarian , strange to Greek language and culture (and also, after the Persian war, with the added sense of brutal , rude ): Ac 28:2 , 4 , Ro 1:14 , I Co 14:11 , Col 3:11 (v. Lft., in l., and Notes , 249).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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