ΒΑΡΒΑΡΩ, βαρβαρω
BARBARŌ, barbarō
Sounds Like: bar-ba-ROH
Translations: to make barbaric, to speak barbarously, to act barbarously
From the root: ΒΑΡΒΑΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb means to make someone or something barbaric, or to act or speak in a barbaric or foreign manner. It implies a lack of refinement or understanding, often referring to someone who does not speak Greek or Roman, and thus sounds like 'bar-bar' to them.
Inflection: Present Active Indicative, First Person Singular
Strong’s number: G0914 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 7:19
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
- 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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