ἈΛΟΓΙΣΤΟΣ, ἀλογιστος
ALOGISTOS, alogistos
Sounds Like: ah-loh-GISS-tos
Translations: unwise, thoughtless, foolish, unreasonable, a foolish, an unwise
From the root: ἈΛΟΓΙΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something that is without reason, thoughtless, or foolish. It implies a lack of careful consideration or sound judgment. It is a compound word, formed from the negative prefix 'α-' (alpha privative, meaning 'not' or 'without') and 'λογίζομαι' (logizomai), meaning 'to reckon, consider, or reason'. Thus, it literally means 'not reasoning' or 'without reason'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G0252 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 16:14
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 3:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΟΓΙΣΤΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΛΟΓΙΣΤΟΙ — unwise, foolish, thoughtless, irrational, senseless, unreasonable
- ἈΛΟΓΙΣΤΟΙΣ — unwise, foolish, thoughtless, unreasonable, irrational
- ἈΛΟΓΙΣΤΟΝ — unreasonable, foolish, senseless, thoughtless, an unreasonable thing, a foolish thing
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