βάρβαροςbárbaros
a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)
Greek (New Testament) · G915
Meanings
barbarous, barbarian, strange to Greek language and culture (and also, after the Persian war, with the added sense of brutal, rude): Acts 28:2, Acts 28:4, Romans 1:14, 1 Corinthians 14:11, Colossians 3:11.
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Acts 28:2 The people of the island were very kind to us. It was cold and rainy, so they built a fire on the shore to welcome us.
- Acts 28:4 The people of the island saw it hanging from his hand and said to each other, “A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live.”
- Romans 1:14 For I have a great sense of obligation to people in both the civilized world and the rest of the world, to the educated and uneducated alike.
- 1 Corinthians 14:11 But if I don’t understand a language, I will be a foreigner to someone who speaks it, and the one who speaks it will be a foreigner to me.
- Colossians 3:11 In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.