G219: ἀλεκτοροφωνία (alektorophōnía)

G219 ἀλεκτοροφωνία (alektorophōnía)

Greek

Quick Definition

ἀλεκτοροφωνία, ας, ἡ n.f. cockcrow

Strong's Definition

from 220 and 5456; cock-crow, i.e. the third night-watch

KJV Usage: cockcrowing

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀλεκτοροφωνία (G0219)

noun, f. | -ας | ἀλέκτωρ + φωνέω

67.198 · Time · Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour

before dawn, when the cock crows the name of the third Roman watch during the night, called ‘cockcrow’ (see φυλακή[c] ‘watch,’ 67.196)

MRK 13:35

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀλεκτοροφωνία, -as, 7, (ἀλέκτωρ and φωνή [W. 957), the crowing of a cock, cock-crowing: Aesop. fab. 79 [44]. Used of the third watch of the night: Mk. xiii. 35; in this passage the watches are enumerated into which the Jews, following the Roman method, divided the night; [ef. Win. RWB. 5. v. Nachtwachen; B. 1). 5. ν. Watches of Night; Alex.’s Kitto s. v. Cock-crowing ; Wetst. on Mt. xiv. 25; Wieseler, Chron. Syn. p. 406 note]. (For writ. who use this word see Lod. ad Phryn. p. 229, [and add (fr. Soph. Lex. s. v.) Strab. 7, frag. 35 p. 83, 24; art.] with nom. τὸ ἅλας), finally, nom. and ace. ἅλα Tdf. | Orig. i. 825 b.; Constt. Ap. 5, 18; 5, 19; 8, 34].)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀλεκτοροφωνία alektorophōnia 1x

the cock-crowing, the third watch of the night, intermediate to mid-night and daybreak, and termed cock-crow, Mk. 13:35*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

† ἀλεκτοροφωνία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀλέκτωρ, φωνή),

cock-crowing, i.e. the third watch in the night: Mk 13:35.†

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀλεκτοροφωνία (alektorophōnia) — crowing. ἀλεκτορ-οφωνία, ἡ, cock-crow, i.e. third watch of night, [NT+1st c.BC+]