KJV dictionary & concordance
Heavy devices cast into the water to hold a vessel in place.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Acts 27:29
Complete exact-word concordance
Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
Then fearing lest we should haue fallen vpon rockes, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished for the day.
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let downe the boat into the sea, vnder colour as though they would haue cast ancres out of the fore-ship,
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
And when they had taken vp the ankers, they committed themselues vnto the sea, & loosed the rudder bands, and hoised vp the maine saile to the winde, and made toward shore.
1611 marginal noteOr, cut the ankers, they left them in the sea, &c.
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