Matthew 26:74 …And immediately the rooster
crowed. 75 And Peter remembered the word Jesus had said, “Before the rooster crows,
you will deny me three times.” So he went out and wept bitterly.
This passage contains the rooster that will
forever be connected with Peter during his moment of trial. However there is a
deeper poetic connection between Peter and the Rooster. The first three letters
of the Hebrew word “Rooster”
{(תרנגול) Tarnagol} form the word “Quitter” {(תרנ) Tarn} and the last three letters (גול) are a pun for “Galilean” {(הגלילי) Hagalele}. Thus in Hebrew, “Rooster” is a pun for
“Quitter Galilean.”
From the book "The Gospel of Matthew: A Poetic Analysis"
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