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In Acts 22:16 it is used in the middle voice, in the command given to Saul of Tarsus,
“arise and be baptized,” the significance of the middle voice form being “get thyself
baptized.” The experience of those who were in the ark at the time of the Flood was a
figure or type of the facts of spiritual death, burial, and resurrection, Christian “baptism”
being an
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, “a corresponding type,” a “like figure,” 1 Pet. 3:21. Likewise the
nation of Israel was figuratively baptized when made to pass through the Red Sea under
the cloud, 1 Cor. 10:2. The verb is used metaphorically also in two distinct senses: firstly,
of “baptism” by the Holy Spirit, which took place on the Day of Pentecost; secondly, of
the calamity which would come upon the nation of the Jews, a “baptism” of the fire of
divine judgment for rejection of the will and word of God, Matt. 3:11; Luke 3:16.
BARBARIAN, BARBAROUS
(
1$ $
, 915) properly meant “one whose speech is rude, or harsh”; the
word is onomatopoeic, indicating in the sound the uncouth character represented by the
repeated syllable “bar-bar.” Hence it signified one who speaks a strange or foreign
language. See 1 Cor. 14:11. It then came to denote any foreigner ignorant of the Greek
language and culture. After the Persian war it acquired the sense of rudeness and
brutality. In Acts 28:2, 4, it is used unreproachfully of the inhabitants of Malta, who were
of Phoenician origin. So in Rom. 1:14, where it stands in distinction from Greeks, and in
implied contrast to both Greeks and Jews. Cf. the contrasts in Col. 3:11, where all such
distinctions are shown to be null and void in Christ. “Berber” stood similarly in the
language of the Egyptians for all non-Egyptian peoples.¶
BARE (Adjective)
$
(
, 1131), “naked,” is once translated “bare,” 1 Cor. 15:37, where, used
of grain, the meaning is made clearer by translating the phrase by “a bare grain,”
RV
. See
NAKED
.
For
BARE
(Verb) see
BEAR
BARLEY
A. Noun.
(
$ )
, 2915), “barley,” is used in the plural in Rev. 6:6.¶
B. Adjective.
(
$&
, 2916) signifies “made of barley,” John 6:9, 13.¶
BARN
(
)
, 596), lit., “a place where anything is stored” (Eng.,
“apothecary”), hence denoted a garner, granary, barn, Matt. 3:12; 6:26; 13:30; Luke 3:17;
12:18, 24. See also under
GARNER
.¶
Note:
For
, “a storehouse, store-chamber,” more especially “an inner chamber
or secret room,” Matt. 6:6; 24:26; Luke 12:3, 24, see
CHAMBER
.¶
BARREN
1.
(
&$
, 4723), from a root
meaning “hard, firm” (hence Eng.,
“sterile”), signifies “barren, not bearing children,” and is used with the natural
significance three times in the Gospel of Luke, 1:7, 36; 23:29; and with a spiritual
significance in Gal. 4:27, in a quotation from Isa. 54:1. The circumstances of Sarah and