Barabbas

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • In the accounts of the Passion of Christ, an insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Latin Barabbās, from Ancient Greek Βαραββᾶς, from Aramaic בּר אַבָּא.

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