ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΝ, βαρβαρον
BARBARON, barbaron
Sounds Like: bar-BA-ron
Translations: barbarian, foreign, non-Greek, a barbarian, a foreign thing
From the root: ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone who is not Greek, or who does not speak the Greek language. It often carries the connotation of being uncivilized, uncultured, or even savage, from the perspective of the Greeks. It can refer to a person, a people, or even a language or custom that is foreign.
Inflection: Neuter, Singular, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G0915 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:122
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 5:130
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 8:15
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 119:4
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
- ΒΑΡΒΑΡΕ — barbarian, a barbarian, foreign, a foreigner
- 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
- 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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