ἄγκυρα, -ας, ἡ (ἄγκος, a bend), [in Sm.: Jer.52:18 * ;] an anchor: Act.27:29, 30 40 ; figuratively (MM, VGT, see word), Heb.6:19.† (AS)
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G45 — ἄγκυρα
agkura · anchor · Greek
4 tagged verse occurrences
Acts 27:29 · ἀγκύραςThen fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.Acts 27:30 · ἀγκύραςAnd 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,Acts 27:40 · ἀγκύραςAnd 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.Hebrews 6:19 · ἄγκυρανWhich [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;