Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
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ἄγκυρα
G45 · ánkyra · ang'-koo-rah · Greek
Strong’s definition
an "anchor" (as crooked)
KJV usage
:--anchor.
KJV renderings in this mapping
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Mapped occurrences
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;