STRONGS G45:
ἄγκυρα,
-ας,
ἡ [see
ἀγκάλη],
an anchor — [ancient anchors resembled modern in form: were of iron, provided with a stock, and with two teeth-like extremities often but by no means always without flukes; see
Roschach in Daremberg and Saglio's Dict. des Antiq. (1873), p. 267; Guhl and Koner, p. 258]:
ῥίπτειν to cast (Latin
jacere),
Acts 27:29;
ἐκτείνειν,
Acts 27:30;
περιαίρειν,
Acts 27:40.
Figuratively, any
stay or
safeguard: as hope,
Hebrews 6:19; Euripides, Hec. 78 (80);
Heliodorus vii., p. 352 (350).
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