ΒΑΡΟΥΣ, βαρους
BAROUS, barous
Sounds Like: bah-ROOS
Translations: barbarians, foreigners, non-Greeks
From the root: ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word refers to people who are not Greek, often implying that they do not speak Greek or share Greek culture. In ancient Greek thought, it distinguished Greeks from all other peoples. It is used here in the plural, referring to multiple non-Greek individuals or groups.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative or Genitive, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G0915 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
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
- 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
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