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BAR . Aram. [Note: Aramaic.] word for ‘son’; used, especially in NT times, as the first component of personal names, such as Bar-abbas, Bar-jesus, Bar-jonah, etc.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Bar'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​b/bar.html. 1909.
 
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