19 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

Acts 28:2

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.

KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)

2 Maccabees 2:21

And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism: so that, being but a few, they overcame the whole country, and chased barbarous multitudes,

2 Maccabees 5:22

And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;

2 Maccabees 10:4

When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.

2 Maccabees 13:9

Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his fathers time.

KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)

3 Maccabees 3:24

Having then received certain proofs that these Jews bear us every sort of ill will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.

OT Pseudepigrapha

4 Maccabees 8:32

Ah, cruel was the day, and yet not cruel, when the cruel tyrant of the Greeks set the fire blazing for his barbarous braziers, and with his passions boiling brought to the catapult and back again to his tortures the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham, and blinded the eyeballs of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and slew them with many kinds of torment.

The Sibylline Oracles 1:415

And one of barbarous mind, by dances bound,

The Sibylline Oracles 1:478

Cast down by barbarous men in brazen mail,

The Sibylline Oracles 3:410

Famine and plague, and some by barbarous foes.

The Sibylline Oracles 3:657

When now again a barbarous nation comes

The Sibylline Oracles 5:130

By sacred altars one of barbarous mind,

The Sibylline Oracles 5:182

And barbarous nation, and beneath the earth

The Sibylline Oracles 5:458

A king of Egypt, and a barbarous clime

The Sibylline Oracles 5:630

Forthwith a barbarous race shall make their way

The Sibylline Oracles 8:127

Great barbarous nation; thou didst not perceive

The Sibylline Oracles 11:296

For barbarous murder shall destroy this man

The Sibylline Oracles 14:107

Shall before men of barbarous speech fall down!

Ethiopian Orthodox Broader Canon

Testament of Our Lord, Book I 5:1

But there shall arise also in the West a king of foreign race, a prince of great craft, godless, a homicide, a deceiver, a lover of gold, great at devices, a hater of the faithful,” a persecutor44; and he shall bear rule also over barbarous nations, and shall shed much blood. At that time silver shall be despised and gold be honoured; and in every city and every country there shall be spoiling and robbery, and there shall be spilling of blood.