Word Summary
alektōr: a rooster
Original Word: ἀλέκτωρTransliteration: 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: ἀλέκτωρἀλέκτωρ,
(ορος,
ὁ,
a cock, (Latin
gallus 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).