Barbarian
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Barbarian in the Bible Dictionary
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A foreigner
Acts 28:2–4; Rom 1:14; 1 Cor 14:11; Col 3:11
2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. 3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 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.
Acts 28:214 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Romans 1:1411 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
1 Corinthians 14:1111 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 3:11 - See Stranger
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
