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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Barbarian
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All not Greek, in contrast to the Greeks (). Primitively all speaking an unknown tongue (); the Maltese, as speaking a Punic dialect (; ). Subsequently the word implied cruelty and savagery. Distinguished from Scythians, the wild races beyond the Roman empire; "barbarians" were within it ().