Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

Fallen

Bible References

Fallen

Acts 27:17
and, after hoisting it on board, they used frapping-cables to undergird the ship, and, as they were afraid of being driven on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the gear and lay to.

Anchors

Acts 27:30
The sailors, however, wanted to make their escape from the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow.
Hebrews 6:19
That hope we have as an anchor of the soul--an anchor that can neither break nor drag. It passes in behind the veil,