2 Peter 2:12
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;
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Brute
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Jude 1:10
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.
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ἄλογος
álogos · al'-og-os
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
irrational
Strong's KJV usage: :--brute, unreasonable.
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Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:12Strong's last: Jude 1:10
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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;
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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.
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brute
BRUTE, adjective [Latin brutus, senseless, irrational.]
1. Senseless; unconscious; as the brute earth.
2. Irrational; ferine; as a brute beast.
3. Bestial; in common with beasts; as brute violence.
4. Rough; uncivilized; insensible; as a brute philosopher.
BRUTE, noun A beast; any animal destitute of reason, and of course the word comprehends all animals except man, but is applied mostly to the larger beasts.
1. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; a low bred, unfeeling man.
BRUTE, verb transitive for bruit, to report. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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