Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
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Barbarians
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Romans 1:14
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
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βάρβαρος
bárbaros · bar'-bar-os
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a foreigner (i.e. non-Greek)
Strong's KJV usage: :--barbarian(-rous).
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Strong's first: Acts 28:4Strong's last: Romans 1:14
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And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
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I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
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barbarian
BARBA'RIAN, noun [Latin barbarus; . The sense is, foreign, wild, fierce.]
1. A man in his rude, savage state; an uncivilized person.
2. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
3. A foreigner. The Greeks and Romans denominated most foreign nations barbarians; and many of these were less civilized than themselves, or unacquainted with their language, laws and manners. But with them, the word was less reproachful than with us.
BARBA'RIAN, adjective Belonging to savages; rude; uncivilized.
2. Cruel; inhuman.
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