barbarian

Greek Adjective

βάρβαρος, -ον (prob. onomatop, descriptive of unintelligible sounds), [in LXX: Ps 113 (114):1 (לעז), Eze.21:31 (36) (בּער), 2Ma.2:21 4:25 10:4, 3Ma.3:24 *;] barbarous, barbarian, strange to Greek language and culture (and also, after the Persian war, with the added sense of brutal, rude): Act.28:2, 4 Rom.1:14, 1Co.14:11, Col.3:11 (see Lft, in l, and Notes, 249). (AS)

barbarian

Greek Adjective

βάρβᾰρος, ον, barbarous, i.e. non-Greek, foreign, not in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially as substantive βάρβαροι, οἱ, originally all non-Greek-speaking peoples, then specially of the Medes and Persians, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. πόλεμον war with the barbarians, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ βάρβαρος (i.e. γῆ), opposed to αἱ Ἑλληνίδες πόλεις, [Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb -ρως, opposed to Ἑλληνικῶς,[Refs 3rd c.AD+] 2) especially of language, φωνὴ β. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; συλλραφαί[Refs 4th c.BC+]; of birds, [Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb, βαρβάρως, ὠνόμασται have foreign names, [Refs 1st c.BC+] 3) Grammars, of bad Greek, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὸ β, of style, opposed to Ἑλληνικόν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] II) after the Persian war, brutal, rude, ἀμαθὴς καὶ β. [Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ώτερος[Refs 5th c.BC+] Eph.2.4: superlative, πάντων βαρβαρώτατος θεῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+] III) used by Jews of Greeks, [LXX] IV) name for various plasters, [Refs 1st c.BC+]

Greek

Adjective

a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek); barbarian(-rous); of uncertain derivation