ἈΛΟΓΟΣ, ἀλογος
ALOGOS, alogos
Sounds Like: AH-loh-gos
Translations: unreasonable, irrational, without reason, senseless, absurd, brute
From the root: ἈΛΟΓΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'without reason' or 'irrational'. It is a compound word formed from the alpha privative (ἀ-) meaning 'not' or 'without', and 'λόγος' (logos) meaning 'reason' or 'word'. It can describe something that lacks logic or sense, or it can refer to animals as 'brute beasts' because they lack human reason or speech. It is used to describe actions or beings that are not guided by reason.
Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Masculine or Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G0249 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 18:13
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 6:12
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.
- ἈΛΟΓΑ — irrational, unreasonable, without reason, unreasoning, brute, beast, animal, irrational things, unreasonable things, brute beasts
- 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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