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ἀλεκτοροφωνία

alektorophōnía · G219 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. before dawn, when the cock crows

    The name of the third Roman watch during the night, called ‘cockcrow’ (see φυλακή ‘watch,’)

    Examples

    Mark 13:35 “Therefore, stay alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Before dawn, when the cock crows67.198
In Mark 13:35, Jesus lists the watches of the night “whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows (alektorophōnías), or in the morning,” naming the pre-dawn watch by the crowing of the rooster.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀλέκτωρ aléktōr · G220 · rooster, cock · 11×Ἀλέξανδρος Aléxandros · G223 · man-defender; Alexander, the name of three Israelites and one other man · 6×ἀλεκτοροφωνίαalektorophōnía · G219
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ας, ἡ (ἀλέκτωρ and φωνή (Winers Grammar, 25)), the crowing of a cock, cock-crowing:…
(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: Mk 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 Mt 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).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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