Lexical Summary ankyra: an anchor Original Word: ἄγκυραTransliteration: ankyra Phonetic Spelling: (ang'-koo-rah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: an anchor Meaning: an anchor Strong's Concordance anchor. From the same as agkale; an "anchor" (as crooked) -- anchor. see GREEK agkale Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 45: ἄγκυραἄγκυρα, (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). |
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