ΒΑΡΒΑΡΑ, βαρβαρα
BARBARA, barbara
Sounds Like: bar-BAH-rah
Translations: barbarian, foreign, a barbarian, a foreign woman
From the root: ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone who is not Greek, or who speaks a foreign language, often implying a lack of understanding or refinement from a Greek perspective. It can refer to a person from a non-Greek-speaking land or someone whose speech is unintelligible. In the provided form, it is feminine, singular, and can be used in the nominative, genitive, or vocative case.
Inflection: Singular, Feminine, Nominative or Genitive or Vocative
Strong’s number: G0915 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 2:21
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.
- 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
- ΒΑΡΟΥΣ — barbarians, foreigners, non-Greeks
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