barbaros · foreigner, non-Greek

What it means

barbaros (βάρβαρος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “foreigner, non-Greek”.

A foreigner, someone who does not speak Greek; in the New Testament without contempt, "native", "local people".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One who does not speak Greek; the local people.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• foreigner ×2
• natives ×2
• barbarian ×1
• barbarians ×1

Where it appears

• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Colossians×1

• Acts 28:2

  And the natives showed us no ordinary kindness, for kindling a fire they welcomed all of us because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold.

• Acts 28:4

  And when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they were saying to one another, “This man is surely a murderer; though he was brought safely out of the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

• Romans 1:14

  I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

• 1 Corinthians 14:11

  So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the one who speaks, and the one who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

• Colossians 3:11

  where there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but the Messiah is all and in all.

And 1 more times.