noun · masculine
alektōros
Strong’sG220
a cock, rooster
stem alektōr-12 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
ἀλέκτωρ means a cock, rooster — a male fowl 124. In the New Testament it refers to a rooster, appearing in the accounts of the bird crowing in connection with Peter's denial 1. The same word is also found once in the Greek Old Testament 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G220 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidal-ek'-tore
a cock or male fowl
Fromfrom ἀλέκω (to ward off);
King Jamescock.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἀ- privative, λέγω)
B ={ἄλεκτρος}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | alektōros7×ἀλέκτωρ | alektōrois |
| object accusative | alektōron5×ἀλέκτορα | alektōroin |
| direct address vocative | alektōror | alektōroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | alektōrou | alektōroiu |
| to, for dative | alektōro | alektōroi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
alektōro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
alektōros“rooster”subjectnominative singular7×
Matthew 26:74… Ouk oidamē ton anthrōpon. kai eutheōs alektōros fōnata;… know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.
Mark 14:68… exerchata exō eis tem proauliem kai alektōros fōnata.… out to the gateway, and the rooster crowed.
Mark 14:72kai euthuos ek deutereu alektōros fōnata; kai anamimnēskita tos Petros tem …And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter …
Luke 22:34… Legamō si, Petror, ouk fōnati sēmeron alektōros heōs tris min aparneseia oidarē.… replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you …
Luke 22:60… kai parachrēma ēti lalarōntou autou fōnata alektōros.… while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.
John 13:38… amēn amēn legamō si, ouk mē alektōros fōnateia heōs hou arnesi min tris.… truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three …
John 18:27palin oun arneta Petros; kai eutheōs alektōros fōnata.… it once more, and immediately a rooster crowed.
alektōron“rooster”objectaccusative singular5×
Matthew 26:34… hoti en houta ta nukta prin alektōron fōnara tris aparnesi min.… declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three …
Matthew 26:75… teu rēmeu Iēsu legarēntou hoti Prin alektōron fōnara tris aparnesi min, kai exercharantos …… that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three …
Mark 14:30… houta ta nukta prin ē dis alektōron fōnara tris min aparnesi.… replied, “this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me …
Mark 14:72… legata auto tos Iēsus hoti Prin alektōron fōnara dis tris min aparnesi, kai …… had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me …
Luke 22:61… kuriou hōs legata auto hoti Prin alektōron fōnara sēmeron aparnesi min tris.… had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me …