STRONGS NUMBER G219

Original Word: ἀλεκτοροφωνία
Transliteration: alektorophōnia
Phonetic Spelling: (al-ek-tor-of-o-nee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: the crowing of a rooster
Meaning: the crowing of a roostercockcrowing.

From alektor and phone; cock-crow, i.e. The third night-watch -- cockcrowing.

see GREEK alektor

see GREEK phone

STRONGS NT 219: ἀλεκτοροφωνία

ἀλεκτοροφωνία, (ας, ἡ (ἀλέκτωρ and φωνή (Winers Grammar, 25)), the crowing of a cock, cock-crowing: Aesop fab. 79 (44). Used of the third watch of the night: Mark 13:35; in this passage the watches are enumerated into which the Jews, following the Roman method, divided the night; (cf. Winers RWB under the word Nachtwachen; B. D. under the word ; Alex's Kitto under the word Cock-crowing; Wetstein (1752) on Matthew 14:25; Wieseler, Chron. Synonym., p. 406 note). (For writers who use this word see Lob. ad Phryn, p. 229 (and add (from Sophocles Lexicon, under the word) Strabo 7, fragment 35, p. 83, 24; Origen i., 825 b.; Apostolic Constitutions 5, 18; 5, 19; 8, 34).)