ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΥΣ, βαρβαρους
BARBAROUS, barbarous
Sounds Like: bar-BAH-roos
Translations: barbarians, foreigners, non-Greeks
From the root: ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun, Adjective
Explanation: This word refers to anyone who was not Greek, particularly those who did not speak the Greek language. It originally described people whose speech sounded like unintelligible babbling ('bar-bar'). Over time, it came to denote anyone considered foreign or uncivilized by the Greeks. It is used here in the accusative plural, indicating the direct object of a verb.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0915 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 5:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 3 Maccabees — 3:24
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
- 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
- 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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