Greek adjective · G915
βάρβαρος
barbarosbar'-bar-os
barbarian
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bárbaros
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G915is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G915
a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)
The King James renders it: barbarian(-rous).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
barbaros is rendered "barbarian". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 28:2The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
Acts 28:2βάρβαροι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a foreigner2
- Barbarian1
- natives1
- the natives1
- to barbarians1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βάρβαρος3
- βάρβαροι2
- βαρβάροις1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3A-NSM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2A-NPM
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1A-DPM
Acts
two uses
The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
- βάρβαροιbarbaroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: the natives
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
- βάρβαροιbarbaroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: natives
Romans
one use
I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
- βαρβάροιςbarbaroisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: to barbarians
1 Corinthians
two uses
If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.
- βάρβαροςbarbarosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a foreigner
- βάρβαροςbarbarosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a foreigner
Colossians
one use
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- βάρβαροςbarbarosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Barbarian
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.