βάρβαρος, βαρβαρον; 1. properly, one whose speech is rude, rough, harsh, as if repeating the syllables βαρβαρ (cf. Strabo 14, 2, 28, p. 662; ὠνοματοπεποίηται ἡ λέξις, Etym. Magn. (188, 11 (but Gaisf. reads βραγχός for βάρβαρος); cf. Curtius, § 394; Vanicek, p. 561)); hence, 2. one who speaks a foreign or strange language which is not understood by another (Herodotus 2, 158 βαρβάρους πάντας οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι καλεουσι τούς μή σφισι ὁμογλωσσους, Ovid. trist. 5, 10, 37barbarushicegosum,quianonintelligorulli); so 1Co_14:11. 3. The Greeks used βάρβαρος of any foreigner ignorant of the Greek language and the Greek culture, whether mental or moral, with the added notion, after the Persian war, of rudeness and brutality. Hence, the word is applied in the N. T., but not reproachfully, in Act_28:2; Act_28:4, to the inhabitants of Malta (i. e. Μελίτη, which see), who were of Phoenician or Punic origin; and to those nations that had, indeed, some refinement of manners, but not the opportunity of becoming Christians, as the Scythians, Col_3:11 (but cf. Lightfoot at the passage). But the phrase Ἕλληνες τέ καί βάρβαροι forms also a periphrasis for all peoples, or indicates their diversity yet without reproach to foreigners (Plato, Theact., p. 175{a} ; Isocrates, Euag c. 17, p. 192b.; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 2, 1 and in other writings); so in Rom_1:14. (In Philo de Abr. § 45 under the end of all nations not Jews. Josephus, b. j. prooem. I reckons the Jews among barbarians.) Cf. Grimm on 2Ma_2:21, p. 61; (Lightfoot on Col. as above; B. D. under the word ).

βάρβαρος barbaros 6x pr. one to whom a pure Greek dialect is not native; one who is not a proper Greek, a barbarian, Rom_1:14 ; Col_3:11 ; Act_28:2 ; Act_28:4 ; a foreigner speaking a strange language, 1Co_14:11

βάρβαρος , -ον (prob. onomatop., descriptive of unintelligible sounds), [in LXX : Psa_114:1 ( H3937 ), Eze_21:31 ( H1198 ) 2Ma_2:21 ; 2Ma_4:25 ; 2Ma_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 ; Act_28:4 , Rom_1:14 , 1Co_14:11 , Col_3:11 ( v. Lft ., in l , and Notes, 249).†

βάρβαρος [Etym: deriv. uncertain] "barbarous", i. e. "not Greek, foreign", known to Hom. , as appears from the word βαρβαρόφωνος in Il. :—as Subst. βάρβαροι, οἱ, originally "all that were not Greeks", specially the Medes and Persians, Hdt. , attic: so the Hebrews called the rest of mankind "Gentiles". From the Augustan age however the name was given by the Romans to all tribes which had no Greek "or" Roman accomplishments. after the Persian war the word took the sense of "outlandish", ἀμαθὴς καὶ βάρβαρος Ar. ; βαρβαρώτατος id=Ar. , Thuc.

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)