ἄλογος
alogos · unreasonable, irrational
Greek word · Strong’s number G249 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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alogos (ἄλογος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “unreasonable, irrational”.
Unreasonable, absurd; irrational, as the animals.
How to say it
a·lo·gos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Without reason, led by instinct.
- Making no sense.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- irrational ×2
- unreasonable ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 25:27
For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without also indicating the charges against him.”
- 2 Peter 2:12
But these, like irrational animals, born by nature for capture and destruction, blaspheming in matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
- Jude 1:10
But these blaspheme all that they do not know, and what they understand by instinct, like irrational animals, by these things they are destroyed.