Anchor

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ANCHOR.?See Ships and Boats.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

Anchor. Act_27:29.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

aṇ?kẽr. See SHIPS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Anchor [SHIP]
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.

Heb_6:19 (a) This figure represents the firm hold that faith has in the Rock of Ages. This Rock is inside the veil with GOD. Our faith reaches through the waters of trouble, difficulty, darkness and despair to firmly grasp the Son of GOD and His Word. By this faith we are kept from being swept away in the storms of life.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.

Anchor
(ἄγκυρα), the instrument fastened in the bottom of the sea to hold a vessel firm during a storm (Act_27:29-30; Act_27:40); from which passage it appears that the vessels of Roman commerce had several anchors, and that they were attached to the stern as well as prow of the boat (see Conybeare and Howson, St. Paul, 2, 335). The anchors used by the Romans were for the most part made of iron, and their form resembled that of the modern anchor. The anchor as here represented, and as commonly used, was called bidens, because it had two teeth or flukes. Sometimes it had one only. The following expressions were used for the three principal processes in managing the anchor: Ancoram solvere, ἄγκυραν χαλᾶν, “to loose the anchor;” Ancoram jacere, βάλλειν, ῥίπτειν, “to cast anchor;” Ancoram tollere, αἴρειν, ἀναιρεῖσθαι, ἀνάσπασθαι, “to weigh anchor.” The anchor usually lay on the deck, and was attached to a cable (funis), which passed through a hole in the prow, termed oculus. In the heroic times of Greece we find large stones, called εὐναί (sleepers), used instead of anchors (Hom. Iliad, 1, 436). See SHIP.
In Heb_6:19, the word anchor is used metaphorically for a spiritual support in times of trial or doubt; a figure common to modern languages. SEE HOPE.
Anchor
(as a symbol). By the early Christians we find the anchor used sometimes with reference to the stormy ocean of human life, but more often to the tempests and the fierce blasts of persecution which threatened to ingulf-the ship of the Church. Thus the anchor is one of the most ancient of emblems; and we find it engraved on rings, and depicted on monuments and on the walls of cemeteries in the Catacombs, as a type of the hope by which the Church stood firm in the midst of the storms which surrounded it. In this, as in other cases, Christianity adopted a symbol from paganism, with merely the change of application.
The symbols on sepulchral tablets often contain allusions to the name of the deceased. An anchor upon tituli bearing names derived from Spes, has been found a number of times. (De' Rossi, De Monum. etc. p. 18; Mai, Collect. Vatican. p. 449). In some cases, above the transverse bar of the anchor stands the letter E, probably the abbreviation of the word Elpis. Further, we find the anchor associated with the fish, the symbol of the Saviour. It is clear that the union of the two symbols expresses “hope in Jesus Christ” — a formula common on Christian tablets.
The transverse bar below the ring gives the upper part of the anchor the appearance of a crux ansata [see Cross]; and perhaps this form may have had as much influence in determining the choice of this symbol by the Christians as the words of Paul. The anchor appears, as is natural, very frequently upon the tombs of martyrs (see Lupi, Severoe Epitaph. p. 136 sq.; Boldetti. Osservaz. p. 366, 370).



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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