45. agkura
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agkura: an anchor
Original Word: ἄγκυρα, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: agkura
Phonetic Spelling: (ang'-koo-rah)
Short Definition: an anchor
Definition: an anchor.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as agkalé
Definition
an anchor
NASB Translation
anchor (1), anchors (3).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 45: ἄγκυρα

ἄγκυρα, (ας, (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).



Strong's
anchor.

From the same as agkale; an "anchor" (as crooked) -- anchor.

see GREEK agkale

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