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 (Latinjacere), 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).
Acts 27:29 - N-AFP GRK:πρύμνης ῥίψαντες ἀγκύρας τέσσαρας ηὔχοντο NAS: four anchors from the stern KJV: four anchors out of INT: stern having cast anchors four they prayed
Acts 27:30 - N-AFP GRK:ἐκ πρῴρης ἀγκύρας μελλόντων ἐκτείνειν NAS: to lay out anchors from the bow, KJV: have cast anchors out of INT: from [the] bow anchors being about to cast out
Acts 27:40 - N-AFP GRK:καὶ τὰς ἀγκύρας περιελόντες εἴων NAS: And casting off the anchors, they left KJV: when they had taken up the anchors, they committed INT: and the anchors having cut away they left
Hebrews 6:19 - N-AFS GRK:ἣν ὡς ἄγκυραν ἔχομεν τῆς NAS: hope we have as an anchor of the soul, KJV: as an anchor of the soul, INT: which as an anchor we have of the
