ΒΑΡΒΑΡΕ, βαρβαρε
BARBARE, barbare
Sounds Like: bar-BA-reh
Translations: barbarian, a barbarian, foreign, a foreigner
From the root: ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to someone who is not Greek, or more broadly, someone who does not speak Greek or is considered uncivilized. It can be used as an adjective to describe something as foreign or as a noun to refer to a person from a foreign land or culture. In ancient Greek thought, it often carried a connotation of being uncultured or speaking an unintelligible language.
Inflection: Singular, Vocative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G0915 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΑ — barbarian, foreign, a barbarian, a foreign woman
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΙΚΩΣ — barbarously, in a barbarous manner, like a barbarian
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΙΚΩΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most barbaric, most barbarous
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΙ — barbarians, foreigners, non-Greeks
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΙΣ — barbarians, to barbarians, for barbarians, to the barbarians, for the barbarians, foreign, to foreigners, for foreigners
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΙΣΤΗΝ — barbarians, to barbarians, a barbarian, to a barbarian
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΝ — barbarian, foreign, non-Greek, a barbarian, a foreign thing
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ — barbarian, a barbarian, foreign, a foreigner, non-Greek
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΥ — of a barbarian, of a foreigner, of a non-Greek, of a non-speaker of Greek, of a rude person, of a savage
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΥΣ — barbarians, foreigners, non-Greeks
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΩ — to make barbaric, to speak barbarously, to act barbarously
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΩΝ — of barbarians, of foreigners, of non-Greeks
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΩΣ — barbarously, rudely, uncivilizedly, cruelly, roughly
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more barbaric, more barbarous, more uncivilized, a more barbaric thing
- ΒΑΡΟΥΣ — barbarians, foreigners, non-Greeks
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