Acts 27:29
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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Acts 27:40
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.
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ἄγκυρα
ánkyra · ang'-koo-rah
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
an "anchor" (as crooked)
Strong's KJV usage: :--anchor.
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Strong's first: Acts 27:29Strong's last: Acts 27:40
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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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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,
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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.
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anchor
AN'CHOR, noun [Latin anchora; Gr.]
1. An iron instrument for holding a ship or other vessel at rest in water. It is a strong shank, with a ring at one end, to which a cable may be fastened; and with two arms and flukes at the other end, forming a suitable angle with the shank to enter the ground.
In seamen's language, the anchor comes home, when it is dislodged from its bed, so as to drag by the violence of the wind, sea or current.
Foul anchor is when the anchor hooks or is entangled with another anchor or with a wreck or cable, or when the slack cable is entangled.
The anchor a cock bill, is when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cat head, ready to be let go.
The anchor a peek, is when it is drawn in so tight as to bring the ship directly over it.
The anchor is a trip, or a weigh, when it is just drawn out of the ground, in a perpendicular direction, either by the cable or the buoy-rope.
To back an anchor is to lay down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home.
At anchor is when a ship rides by her anchor Hence, to lie or ride at anchor
To cast anchor or to anchor is to let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest.
To weigh anchor is to heave or raise the anchor out of the ground.
Anchors are of different sizes. The principal, and that on which most dependence is placed, is the sheet anchor Then come the best bower, the small bower, the space anchor the stream anchor and the kedge anchor which is the smallest.
2. In a figurative sense, that which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast. Hebrews 6:19.
3. In architecture, anchors are carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor It is commonly a part of the ornaments of the boultins of capitals in the Tuscan, Doric and Ionic orders, and on the moldings of cornices.
In heraldry, anchors are emblems of hope.
AN'CHOR, verb transitive
1. To place at anchor; to moor; as to anchor a ship.
2. To fix or fasten on; to fix in a stable condition
AN'CHOR, verb intransitive
1. To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship anchored off the isle of Wight.
2. To stop; to fix or rest on.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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