Lexicon alektorophónia: the crowing of a rooster Original Word: ἀλεκτοροφωνία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: alektorophónia Phonetic Spelling: (al-ek-tor-of-o-nee'-ah) Short Definition: cockcrow Definition: the cockcrow, as a period of time, between midnight and 3 a.m. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alektór and phónéDefinitionthe crowing of a rooster NASB Translationrooster crows (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 219: ἀλεκτοροφωνίαἀλεκτοροφωνία, (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).)
Strong's cockcrowing. From alektor and phone; cock-crow, i.e. The third night-watch -- cockcrowing. see GREEK alektor see GREEK phone |
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