Strong's #45: agkura (pronounced ang'-koo-rah)

from the same as 43; an "anchor" (as crooked):--anchor.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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agkura

1) an anchor

2) metaphorically any stay or safeguard

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the same as G43

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Acts 27:29: "rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished"
Acts 27:30: "as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,"
Acts 27:40: "And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea,"
Hebrews 6:19: "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure"