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βάρβαρος

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Gloss: barbarian

Transliteration: barbaros

Strong’s: G0915

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).†
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