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Very interesting! As a Hebrew speaker, I can confirm "bar" is being used to indicate "son of" but not in spoken language, just in some exoressions which originate from Aramic, and some surnames (son of...) Btw, there is an Israeli actor with the surname "Barabba", who mentioned in an interview it's a name going back many generations.
I was hoping a hebrew-speaker would chime in to confirm that I at least wasn't too far off-base with that part. Talking about languages I don't know is always a little uneasy for me because every language has its own weird quirks and something is always lost in translation.