Greek noun (feminine) · G45
ἄγκυρα
ankyraang'-koo-rah
anchor
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ánkyra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G45is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G45
an "anchor" (as crooked)
The King James renders it: anchor.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ankyra is rendered "anchor". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 27:29Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
Acts 27:29ἀγκύρας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- anchors3
- an anchor1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀγκύρας3
- ἄγκυραν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural3N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Acts
three uses
Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
- ἀγκύραςagkurasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: anchors
Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.
- ἀγκύραςagkurasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: anchors
Cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea as they loosened the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.
- ἀγκύραςagkurasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: anchors
Hebrews
one use
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
- ἄγκυρανagkurannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: an anchor
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.