ἄλογος

Dictionary

ἄλογος, ον

Greek transliteration

alogos

Simplified transliteration

alogos

Strong's number

249

GK Number

263

Frequency in New Testament

Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag

a-3a

Gloss

unreasonable, without reason, brutish and living by instinct

Definition

without speech, or reason, irrational, brute, 2 Pet. 2:12; Jude 10; unreasonable, absurd, Acts 25:27*

Acts 25:27	For it seems unreasonable (alogon \| ἄλογον \| nom sg neut) to me, in sending a prisoner, not to report the charges against him.”
2 Peter 2:12	But these people, like irrational (aloga \| ἄλογα \| nom pl neut) animals, born creatures of instinct to be captured and destroyed, are ignorant of those whom they slander, and in their destruction will themselves also be destroyed,
Jude 1:10	But these people blaspheme whatever they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct as irrational (aloga \| ἄλογα \| nom pl neut) beasts, by these they are being destroyed.

Search the Greek Dictionary