ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΙΣ, βαρβαροις
BARBAROIS, barbarois
Sounds Like: bar-BAH-roys
Translations: barbarians, to barbarians, for barbarians, to the barbarians, for the barbarians, foreign, to foreigners, for foreigners
From the root: ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to people who are not Greek, particularly those who do not speak Greek. It can be used as an adjective meaning 'foreign' or as a noun meaning 'foreigner' or 'barbarian'. In ancient Greek culture, it often carried a connotation of being uncivilized or uncultured, as their language sounded like 'bar-bar' to Greek ears. This specific form is a plural dative, indicating 'to' or 'for' these foreign people.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0915 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Romans — 1:14
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:107
- Book 2 — 11:263
- Book 4 — 2:12
- Book 11 — 7:299
- Book 15 — 5:136
- Book 16 — 6:176
- Book 18 — 9:328
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 10:4
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Romans — 1:14
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
- 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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