Strong's #915: barbaros (pronounced bar'-bar-os)

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

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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barbaros

1) one whose speech is rude, rough and harsh

2) one who speaks a foreign or strange language which is not understood by another

3) used by the Greeks of any foreigner ignorant of the Greek language, whether mental or moral, with the added notion after the Persian war, of rudeness and brutality. The word is used in the N.T. without the idea of reproachfulness.

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: of uncertain derivation

Citing in TDNT: 1:546, 94

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Acts 28:2: "And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness:"
Acts 28:4: "And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang"
Romans 1:14: "both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise."
1 Corinthians 14:11: "voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto"
1 Corinthians 14:11: "a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me."
Colossians 3:11: "circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but"