Dear D'vorah...

I already spent time trying to solve this riddle some time ago...

#220 'ALEKTOR' (rooster) should be the clue! If the meaning of the Hebrew
word GEVER is related to an announcer, caller, cantor, crier and so on... Then
'ALEKTOR' is a corrupt form of 'LEKTOS' which is defined as an adjective
of the verb 'LEGO' #3004.

The definition of 'LEKTOS' is found in any current Greek/English dictionary;

however, this word doesn't appear anywhere in the NT, so you cannot use
Strong to make the connection to 'LEGO'. The early church fathers were not
well versed in the Hebrew language or in Temple activities... After the
destruction of the Temple the GEVER was probably no longer evident and the
Christians switched to a rooster crowing, or anything that would eliminate the
Jewish flavor of the event. Please notice that the Greek text DOESN'T SAY
that the rooster CROWED, but that the ALEKTOR uttered a SOUND
(PHONEO #5455).

BDB/Thayers # 5455
5455 phoneo fo-neh'-o} from 5456; TDNT - 9:301,1287; v
AV - call 23, crow 12, cry 5, call for 2; 42
1) to sound, emit a sound, to speak
1a) of a cock: to crow
1b) of men: to cry, cry out, cry aloud, speak with a loud voice
2) to call, to call one's self, either by one's own voice or though another
3) to send for, summon
3a) to call out of (i.e. bid one to quit a place and come to one
3b) to invite
3c) to address, accost, call by a name

BDB/Thayers # 5456
5456 phone fo-nay'} probably akin to 5316 through the idea of disclosure;
TDNT - 9:278,1287; n f
AV - voice 131, sound 8, be noised abroad + 1096 1, noise 1; 141
1) a sound, a tone
1a) of inanimate things, as musical instruments
2) a voice
2a) of the sound of uttered words
3) speech
3a) of a language, tongue

BTW... the English words LECTOR, lection, lecture, lectern and so on are of
Latin origin, and they are all derived from the Greek word LEKTOS. The
Greek text and grammar didn't change that much over the centuries...
BDB/Thayers # 3004
3004 lego leg'-o} a root word; TDNT - 4:69,505; v
AV - say 1184, speak 61, call 48, tell 33, misc 17; 1343
1) to say, to speak
1a) affirm over, maintain
1b) to teach
1c) to exhort, advise, to command, direct
1d) to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say
1e) to call by name, to call, name
1f) to speak out, speak of, mention

Vine's Dict. # 482

COCK, COCK-CROWING
1. ALEKTOR [Strong...220], a cock, perhaps connected with a Hebrew phrase
for the on-coming of the light, is found in the passages concerning Peter's
denial of the Lord,
# Matt 26:34,74,75, Mark 14:30,68,72, Luke 22:34,60,61, John 13:38, 18:27
2. ALEKTOROPHONIA [Strong...219] denotes cock-crowing (alektôr, and
phônê, a sound), Mark 13:35
There were two cock-crowings, one after midnight, the other before dawn. In
these watches the Jews followed the Roman method of dividing the night. The
first cock-crowing was at the third watch of the night. That is the one
mentioned in Mark 13:35
Mark mentions both; see Mark 14:30
The latter, the second, is that referred to in the other Gospels and is mentioned
especially as "the cock-crowing."

I'm strongly persuaded that the ROOSTER CROWING is probably another

Christian fabrication... Your thesis that the rooster is none other than a cantor
crying out the routine worship calls is more credible unless we want to believe
that Yahushua had the top political leaders of the Roman Empire at
Yerushalayim/Jerusalem up PAST MIDNIGHT so that Kefa/Peter could hear
the cock crow... The story of a cock crowing during Kefa/Peter's interrogation
is most unusual and it actually lent itself to the creation of idols in the form of
a rooster that are used by many Christians to enhance their worship activities.

This is as close to the truth as we can possibly get… It is based on a pattern of

other cases in which some Greek and Hebrew words were translated in a way
to 'favor the faith' like Revelation 22:14 (in some versions the Greek 'wash
their armature' was translated as 'wash their robes' instead of 'keeping the
commandments' like it says in earlier mss the difference is only one letter in a
Greek word)... and if you check the story of Eliyah you will learn that the
Bible translators want us to believe that Eliyah was fed by RAVENS while
hidding in a cave in Arabia, instead of being fed by Arabs.
Exactly the same Hebrew word is used for raven, Arab and Arabia. Even the
Hebrew sound for Arab and raven is 'ARAB' therefore it must have been
Arabs who fed Eliyah in Arabia, not the ravens.

BDB/Thayers # 6158
06158 `oreb o-rabe'} or `owreb o-rabe'}; from 06150; TWOT - 1690a; n m
AV - raven 10; 10
1) Raven

06150 `arab aw-rab'}

a primitive root [identical with 06148 through the idea of covering with a
texture]; TWOT - 1689; v
AV - evening 2, darkened 1; 3
1) to become evening, grow dark
1a) (Qal) to become evening, grow dark
1b) (Hiphil) to spend the evening, do at evening

06152 `Arab ar-awb'} or `Arab ar-ab'} from 06150 in the fig. sense of
sterility; TWOT - 1688a,1688c; n pr coll
AV - Arabia 5; 5
1) steppe-dwellers
1a) the people inhabiting the country east and south of Canaan, the nomadic
desert Bedouins
1b) Arabians, Arabs