Greek noun (masculine) · G220
ἀλέκτωρ
alektoral-ek'-tore
rooster
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: aléktōr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G220is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G220
a cock or male fowl
The King James renders it: cock.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
alektor is rendered "rooster". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 26:34“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
Matthew 26:34ἀλέκτορα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- rooster9
- a rooster3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀλεκτοροφωνία | alektorophonia | crowing | Uses1 |
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀλέκτωρ7
- ἀλέκτορα5
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular7N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular5N-ASM
Matthew
three uses
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
- ἀλέκτοραalektoranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.
- ἀλέκτωρalektornoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a rooster
Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
- ἀλέκτοραalektoranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
Mark
four uses
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”
- ἀλέκτοραalektoranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
But he denied it. “I do not know or even understand what you are talking about,” he said. Then he went out to the gateway, and the rooster crowed.
- ἀλέκτωρalektornoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
- ἀλέκτωρalektornoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a rooster
- ἀλέκτοραalektoranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
Luke
three uses
But Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”
- ἀλέκτωρalektornoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
“Man, I do not know what you are talking about,” Peter replied. While he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.
- ἀλέκτωρalektornoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”
- ἀλέκτοραalektoranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
John
two uses
“Will you lay down your life for Me?” Jesus replied. “Truly, truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.
- ἀλέκτωρalektornoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: rooster
Peter denied it once more, and immediately a rooster crowed.
- ἀλέκτωρalektornoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a rooster
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.