Definition of "Barabbas"

Barabbas

/bəˈɹæbəs/

proper noun
1. (Christianity) In the accounts of the Passion of Christ, an insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus.
  Quotations
  And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made inſurrection with him, who had committed murder in the inſurrection.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Mark 15:7