Greek adjective · G249
ἄλογος
alogosal'-og-os
without reason, irrational; contrary to reason
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: álogos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G249is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G249
irrational
The King James renders it: brute, unreasonable.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
alogos is rendered "without reason, irrational; contrary to reason". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "without reason, irrational".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 25:27For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
Acts 25:27ἄλογον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: without reason, irrational, and contrary to reason.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| without reason, irrationalζῷα, 2Pe.2:12, Ju 10. | Tagged as
| Where2 Peter 2:12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed… |
| contrary to reasonAct.25:27 (see MM, VGT, see word).† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereActs 25:27For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἄλογα2
- ἄλογον1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter plural2A-NPN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN
Acts
one use
For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
- ἄλογονalogonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Absurd
2 Peter
one use
These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
- ἄλογαalogaadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: irrational
Jude
one use
These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
- ἄλογαalogaadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: irrational
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.