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βάρβαρος

MainId: 000914000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: β

StrongCodes: G0915

BaseForms:

BaseFormID: 000914001000000
PartsOfSpeech: adjc.
Inflections:
1. Lemma: βάρβαρος
  BaseFormIndex: 1
  Realizations: -ον
LEXMeanings:
1. LEXID: 000914001001000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
  LEXEntryCode: 11.95
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes
  LEXSubDomains: Ethnic-Cultural
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-02-04 22:14:34
    DefinitionShort: a person not participating in Greek culture and civilization (βάρβαρος contrasts with {L:Ἕλλην}[a] ‘Greek,’ {D:11.90}, with the focus on culture rather than on language; see {S:04601401100024} at {D:11.94})
    Glosses: non-Greek
    Comments: It would be a mistake in the case of {S:04500101400008} to speak merely of ‘Greeks and barbarians’ or ‘Greeks and savages.’ By NT times {L:Ἕλλην} (see {D:11.90}) would have included most of those who participated in one way or another in the culture of the Greco-Roman world. Accordingly, one may render the contrast in {S:04500101400008} as ‘the civilized and the uncivilized.’
  LEXReferences: ROM 1:14
2. LEXID: 000914001002000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
  LEXEntryCode: 11.94
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes
  LEXSubDomains: Ethnic-Cultural
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-02-04 22:14:34
    DefinitionShort: the native people of an area in which a language other than Greek or Latin was spoken (such persons would be regarded as being outside the civilized world of NT times)
    Glosses: ['native people', 'uncivilized', 'foreigners']
    Comments: In rendering this expression in {S:04402800200006} it would be possible in some languages to translate ‘the people there who spoke a strange language were friendly to us’ or ‘the local inhabitants of that island were kind to us.’ ἔσομαι τῷ λαλοῦντι βάρβαρος καὶ ὁ λαλῶν ἐν ἐμοὶ βάρβαρος ‘I will be a foreigner to the one who speaks, and the one who speaks will be a foreigner to me’ {S:04601401100036}. In {S:04601401100036} βάρβαρος implies being a foreigner from a country outside of the so-called civilized world.
  LEXReferences: ACTs 28:2, ACTs 28:4, 1COR 14:11, 1COR 14:11
3. LEXID: 000914001003000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
  LEXEntryCode: 41.31
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Behavior and Related States
  LEXSubDomains: Particular Patterns of Behavior
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-02-04 22:14:34
    DefinitionShort: a pattern of behavior associated with a low cultural level
    Glosses: ['uncivilized', 'barbarian']
    Comments: Regardless of the level of culture or civilization, each ethnic group seems to be able to point to some other group regarded as being uncivilized. In some languages such a group is identified as ‘those who live far away’ or ‘those who do not live in towns’ or ‘those who are very strange.’ In {S:05100301100020} {L:Σκύθης} ‘Scythian’ ({D:93.583}) may represent a state of civilization even lower than that implied by βάρβαρος ‘barbarian.’
  LEXReferences: COL 3:11