Alogos means “brute” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H249 — ezrach (“bay tree”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G249 ἄλογος (alogos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. alogos (al'-og-os) adj. 1. irrational [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3056] It has 9 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include brute and unreasonable. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
alogos (al'-og-os) adj. 1. irrational [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3056] KJV: brute, unreasonable Root(s): G1, G3056
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G249. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
unreasonable
Usage: ἄ-λογος, -ον [in LXX: Exo.6:12 (שָׂפָה עָרֵל), Num.6:12 (נָפַל), Job.11:12, Wis.11:15-16, 4Ma.3:1-21 * ;] __1. without reason, irrational: ζῷα, 2Pe.2:12, Ju 10. __2. contrary to reason: Act.25:27 (see MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render alogos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G249 (ἄλογος) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel hearkened not to me, and how shall Pharaoh hearken to me? and I am not eloquent.
in which he was consecrated to the Lord, all the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
O king, how long dost thou make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that thou hast ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, thou changest thy mind, and recallest thy instructions.
where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.
But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shown by irrational animals?
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G249.
And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel hearkened not to me, and how shall Pharaoh hearken to me? and I am not eloquent.
in which he was consecrated to the Lord, all the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.
For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
O king, how long dost thou make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that thou hast ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, thou changest thy mind, and recallest thy instructions.
where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.
But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shown by irrational animals?
But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, Wherewith being deceived they worshiped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, Thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G249, grouped by book.
Alogos (Strong's G249) is a Greek word most simply glossed "brute". alogos (al'-og-os) adj. 1. irrational [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3056]
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G249 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G249 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as brute and unreasonable. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G249, with linked reader references where each row is available.