STRONGS G219:
ἀλεκτοροφωνία,
-ας,
ἡ, (
ἀλέκτωρ and
φωνή [Winers Grammar, 25]),
the crowing of a cock, cock-crowing:
Aesop fab. 79 [44]. Used of the third watch of the night:
Mark 13:35; in this passage the watches are enumerated into which the Jews, following the Roman method, divided the night; [cf.
Winers RWB under the word Nachtwachen;
B. D. under the word Watches of Night; Alex's Kitto under the word Cock-crowing; Wetstein on
Matthew 14:25;
Wieseler, Chron. Synonym., p. 406 note].
(For writers who use this word see
Lob. ad Phryn, p. 229 [and add (from
Sophocles Lexicon, under the word) Strabo 7, fragment 35, p. 83, 24; Origen i., 825 b.; Apostolic Constitutions 5, 18; 5, 19; 8, 34].)
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