Strong's Concordance
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.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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
