ἀλέκτωρ
rooster
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 7 times (58%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 5 times (42%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G220 appears — 11 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 3 verses
- Matthew 26:34 ἀλέκτορα n acc sg masc Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."
- Matthew 26:74 ἀλέκτωρ n nom sg masc Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed.
- Matthew 26:75 ἀλέκτορα n acc sg masc Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 14:30 ἀλέκτορα n acc sg masc Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."
- Mark 14:68 ἀλέκτωρ n nom sg masc But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
- Mark 14:72 ἀλέκτωρ ἀλέκτορα n nom sg masc n acc sg masc The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 22:34 ἀλέκτωρ n nom sg masc He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."
- Luke 22:60 ἀλέκτωρ n nom sg masc But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
- Luke 22:61 ἀλέκτορα n acc sg masc The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."
John 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“rooster” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αλεκτωρ (aléktōr). Translators differ — “cock” in the King James Version, then “rooster” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 11 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 27% of its uses. First canonically at Matthew 26:34, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G220 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 11 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 27%
- Johannine 2 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Cock 12×
- American Standard Version: Cock 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rooster 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rooster 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G220 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G220 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G220 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G220 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a cock, or male of any bird, a rooster
Word origin
Origin: from (to ward off)
From ἀλέκω alekō (to ward off); a cock or male fowl : - cock.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G220 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀλέκτωρ aléktōr | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 26:74 | 7 |
| ἀλέκτορα aléktora | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 26:34 | 5 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G220, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αλεκτωρ appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 30:31 ἀλέκτωρ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G220) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G220) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
