STRONGS NUMBER G220


Word Summary
alektōr: a rooster
Original Word: ἀλέκτωρ
Transliteration: alektōr
Phonetic Spelling: (al-ek'-tore)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a rooster
Meaning: a rooster
Strong's Concordance
cock.

From aleko (to ward off); a cock or male fowl -- cock.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 220: ἀλέκτωρ

ἀλέκτωρ, (ορος, , a cock, (Latingallus gallinaceus): Matthew 26:34, 74; Mark 14:30, 68 (Lachmann brackets), 72; Luke 22:34, 60; John 13:38; John 18:27. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 229; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 307; Winers Grammar, 23; see also BB. DD. under the word; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 221f; especially Egli, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Theol., 1879, p. 517ff).