Brute
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
(2): (a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
(3): (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
(4): (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
(5): (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
(6): (v. t.) To report; to bruit.
(7): (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
(8): (n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
translated "brute" in the AV of 2—Peter 2:12; Jude 1:10 , signifies "without reason," RV, though, as J. Hastings points out, "brute beasts" is not at all unsuitable, as "brute" is from Latin brutus, which means "dull, irrational;" in Acts 25:27 it is rendered "unreasonable."
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Jeremiah 10:8 (b) This describes the lusts and fleshly desires of a worldly people.
Jeremiah 51:17 (b) This indicates that man's whole thought and desire is for earthly things.
2 Peter 2:12 (a) By this is described leading men of the church who desire only those things which satisfy the natural cravings of the human heart and mind.
Judges 1:10 (a) This is an assertion that these evil leaders knew nothing of spiritual things but only the things of this earth.
King James Dictionary [4]
Brute a. L. 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, n. 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, for bruit, to report. Not used.
