Topic
Brute; Brutish
11 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 49:10ISBE
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
- Psalms 92:6ISBE
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
- Psalms 94:8ISBE
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
- Proverbs 30:2ISBE
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
- Isaiah 19:11ISBE
¶ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- Jeremiah 10:14ISBE
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 10:21ISBE
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
- Jeremiah 51:17ISBE
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Acts 25:27ISBE
For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
- 2 Peter 2:12ISBE
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;
- Jude 1:10ISBE
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.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
broot, brootish (ba`ar, "stupid"; alogos, "without speech," hence, irrational, unreasonable (Ac 25:27; 2Pe 2:12; Jude 1:10 the King James Version)): The man who denies God acts in an irrational way. Such persons are described as brutish (Ps 49:10; 92:6; 94:8; Jer 10:14,21; 51:17). These are stupid, unteachable. This is a graphic description of the atheist. The proverb, "No fool like the learned fool," is especially true of the ignorance of the unbelievers of the Scriptures. Their obj ections to the Bible, as a rule, are utterly ridiculous. The word is occasionally used in the sense of thoughtless ignorance. Brutish counsel is counsel that is foolish, unreasonable (Isa 19:11). The term is used by Agur (Pr 30:2) to express the low estimate he has of himself and his conscious lack of knowledge.
Jacob W. Kapp
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.