Barbara n'est pas dans la Bible — mais le mot qui se cache derrière l'est

Barbara is not a name in the Bible. But the word behind it is in the New Testament, and the people it describes are the kindest strangers in the book of Acts. What the name means Barbara is the feminine of the Greek barbaros — foreign, strange, not one of us. The origin is blunt and slightly comic. To a Greek ear, a language you could not understand sounded like someone saying “bar bar bar.” The word was invented by…