Lexicon
alogos: without reason
Original Word: ἄλογος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: alogos
Phonetic Spelling: (al'-og-os)
Short Definition: unreasonable, senseless
Definition: without reason, irrational; contrary to reason, absurd.
HELPS word-Studies
249 álogos (from 1 /A "not" and 3056 /lógos, "reason") – properly, counter to reason; "unreasonable" – literally, "non-reason, no-logic."
249 /álogos ("unreasonable") refers to irrational behavior (thinking) from God's point of view, i.e. what is completely against divine reason. 249 (álogos) means "acting like a brute beast" (see Jude 10), i.e. utterly unreasonable (absurd).
[249 (álogos) describes behavior that lacks sound moral (spiritual) reasoning.]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a neg. prefix) and
logosDefinitionwithout reason
NASB Translationabsurd (1), unreasoning (2).