Senses
1. Barnabas (proper name) — The personal name of Joseph the Levite from Cyprus, surnamed Barnabas ('son of encouragement') by the apostles, who became a prominent early church leader and missionary companion of Paul. All 28 occurrences across nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative singular forms refer to the same individual; the two clusters reflect only minor orthographic/morphological variants in translation, not distinct senses. Multilingual evidence is uniform: spa 'Barnabâs / Barnábas,' hin 'बरनबास / बरनबस,' arb 'بَرنابا / بَرْنَابَا,' kor '바나바,' swa 'Barnaba.' Attested throughout Acts 4:36-15:39 and Paul's epistles (1 Cor 9:6, Gal 2:1-13, Col 4:10). 28×
AR["بَرنابا","بَرْنَابَا"]·ben["বার্ণবা","বার্ণবাকে","বার্ণবার","বার্নাবাস"]·DE["Barnabas"]·EN["Barnabas","of-Barnabas"]·FR["Barnabas"]·heb["בַּר-נַבָּא","בַּרְנַבָּא","בַּרְנָבָא","וְ-","יְהוּדָה"]·HI["जो-है","बरनबास","बरनबास-के","बरनबास-को","बरनाबास"]·ID["Barnabas","Barnabas,"]·IT["Barnaba"]·jav["Barnabas","Barnabas,"]·KO["바나바-는","바나바-로","바나바가","바나바는","바나바를","바나바에게","바나바와"]·PT["Barnabé","Barnabé,","Barnabé:","a-Barnabé"]·RU["Варнава","Варнава,","Варнаве","Варнавой","Варнавою","Варнаву","Варнавы"]·ES["Barnabâ","Barnabân","Barnabâs","Barnábas","a-Barnabâ","a-Barnabân","a-Barnábas","de-Barnábas"]·SW["Barnaba","Barnaba,","wa-Barnaba"]·TR["Barnaba","Barnaba'ya","Barnaba'yla","Barnaba'yı","Barnabas","Barnabas'un","Barnabas'ı"]·urd["برنباس"]
Acts 4:36, Acts 9:27, Acts 11:22, Acts 11:30, Acts 12:25, Acts 13:1, Acts 13:2, Acts 13:7, Acts 13:43, Acts 13:46, Acts 13:50, Acts 14:12 (+16 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
Βαρναβᾶς, -α, ὁ (Aram. בַּר, son, as prefix to another word interpreted in Act.4:36, τῆς παρακλήσεως, perh. נְבוּאָה, wh., however, should be rendered by προφητεία as in II Est.6:14, LXX. Deiss., BS, 309f., thinks Β. may be a variant of the name Βαρνεβοῦς, son of Nebo, found in a Syrian Inscr., altered with a view to disguising its origin; see also Milligan, NTD, iii; Dalman, Gr., 142), Barnabas:…