noun · feminine
ankuras
Strong’sG45
an anchor
stem ankur-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἄγκυρα, -ας, ἡ (< ἄγκος, a bend), [in Sm.: Je 52:18*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G45 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidang'-koo-rah
an "anchor" (as crooked)
Fromfrom the same as G43;
King Jamesanchor.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
anchor, Refs 7th c.BC+; ἄ. βάλλεσθαι, καθιέναι, μεθιέναι, ἀΦιέναι to cast anchor, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. αἴρειν, αἴρεσθαι to weigh anchor, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ ἀγκυρέων ὁρμεῖν ride at anchor, Refs 5th c.BC+; prov, ἀγαθαὶ πέλοντ᾽.. δύ᾽ ἄγκυραι 'tis good to have 'two strings to your bow', Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς (i.e. ἀγκύρας) ὁρμεῖν τοῖς πολλοῖς, i.e. 'to be in the same boat' with the many, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἴκων ἄ., of a son, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἱερὰ ἄ., last hope, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II pruning-hook, Refs 4th c.BC+
III ={αἰδοῖον}, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ankuras | ankurais |
| object accusative | ankuran1×ἄγκυραν | ankurain3×ἀγκύρας |
| direct address vocative | ankurar | ankurair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ankurau | ankuraiu |
| to, for dative | ankura | ankurai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ankura is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
ankuran“anchor”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 6:19han hōs ankuran echanō tau psuchau, asfalan tē kai …We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure …
ankurain“anchors”objectaccusative plural3×
Acts 27:29… trachuoin topoin ekpiptaneia ek prumnau riptarantois ankurain tessares euchole hēmeran genera.… on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for …
Acts 27:30… tan thalassan profasia hōs ek prōrau ankurain mellarōntoiu ekteinarō,… from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the …
Acts 27:40kai tain ankurain periairarantois easale eis tan thalassan, hama …Cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea …