2001 Translation

ALOGA, aloga

Sounds Like: ah-LOH-gah

Translations: irrational, unreasonable, without reason, unreasoning, brute, beast, animal, irrational things, unreasonable things, brute beasts

From the root: ἈΛΟΓΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word describes something that is without reason, irrational, or unreasoning. It can be used as an adjective to modify nouns, such as 'irrational animals' (ἈΛΟΓΑ ΖΩΑ). It can also function as a noun, referring to 'brute beasts' or 'irrational things'. It implies a lack of logical thought or speech.

Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G0249 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:119, 2:121

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:11
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 30:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 4 Maccabees — 14:14
• Wisdom — 11:15

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 2 Peter — 2:12
• Jude — 1:10

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΟΓΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΛΟΓΟΣ — unreasonable, irrational, without reason, senseless, absurd, brute
• ἈΛΟΓΟΥ — of irrational, of unreasonable, of unreasoning, of speechless, of brute, of a brute, of a beast
• ἈΛΟΓΩΝ — of irrational, of unreasoning, of brute, of speechless, of unreasonable

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