Quick Definition
ἀλέκτωρ, ορος, ὁ n.m. a cock, rooster
Strong's Definition
from aleko (to ward off); a cock or male fowl
KJV Usage: cock
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ορος | ἀλεκτοροφωνία
4.45 · Animals · Birds
rooster, cock male domestic fowl, dark brownish red, with orange-red neck hackles, a smallish red comb on the top of the head, and red lappets on each side under the beak; the hen is a lighter brownish red and has a smaller comb; significance in the Bible seems related to the fact that cocks crow very early in the morning, announcing the coming dawn
MAT 26:34 · MAT 26:74 · MAT 26:75 · MRK 14:30 · MRK 14:68 · MRK 14:72 · MRK 14:72 · LUK 22:34 · LUK 22:60 · LUK 22:61 · JHN 13:38 · JHN 18:27
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀλέκτωρ, -opos, 6, acock, (Lat. gallus gallinaceus) : Mt. xxvi. 34, 74sq.; Mk. xiv. 30,68 [Lehm. br.], 72; Lk. xxii. 34,60 sq.; Jn. xiii.38; xviii. 27. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 229; (Rutherford, New Phryn. p. 307; W. 23; see also BB.DD.s. v.; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 221 sq. 5 esp. Egli, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Theol., 1879 p. 517 sqq.].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀλέκτωρ alektōr 12x
a cock, rooster, Mt. 26:34; Mk. 14:30; Lk. 22:34; Jn. 13:38
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀλέκτωρ, -ορος, ὁ
(poët. form of ἀλεκτρυών; v. MM, VGT, s.v.), [in LXX: Pr 30:31) (זַרְזִיר; BDB, Lex., 267)*;]
a cock: Mt 26:34, Mk 14:30, 68 14:72 Lk 22:34, 60, 61, Jo 13:38 18:27.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀλέκτωρ. See Rutherford WP p. 307 for the history of this word (MGr ἀλόχτερας) in classical Greek. It is found in P Tebt I. 140 (B.c. 72) τι[μὴ]ν ἀλέκτορος καὶ ἀρτοπίνακος. Add P Ryl 11. 166% (A.p. 26) ἀ. ἕνα (which, as in 16718, is promised as a yearly offering, in the proposal to take upa lease), P Fay 119®® (c. A.D. 100) ἀλέκτορας δέκα, BGU 1. From a later time (iii/iv A.D., according to Leemans) comes P Leid Vix. 31,52, x.1, where we have (τὸν) ἀλέκτορα dis, and then ἀλεκτόρου: so Wiinsch AF 315 (imperial) ὁ ἀλέκτωρ. It was clearly the normal Kowy form; but ἀλεκτρυόνων may still be seen in P Oxy IX. 12078 (a.p. 175-6?) ἀ. τελείων τεσσάρων, in the same phrase as BGU IV. 1067 Zc. It is noteworthy that ἀλεκτρύων occurs in the well-known Gospel fragment (A/2¢tez/angen of the Rainer Papyri I. i. 54) © ἀλεκτρύων Sis κοκ[κύξει]. Cf. Michel 692° (i/A.D.) ἀλεκτρύονα, but in 1]. 27 of the same inscription ἀλέκτορας.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀλέκτωρ (alektōr) — rooster. ἀλέκτωρ, ορος, ἡ, (ἀ- privative, λέγω) __B ={ἄλεκτρος}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]