Acts 27:29

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

Then {G5037} fearing {G5399} lest {G3381}{G4458} we should have fallen {G1601}{G1601} upon {G1519} rocks {G5117}{G5138}, they cast {G4496} four {G5064} anchors {G45} out of {G1537} the stern {G4403}, and wished {G2172}{G1096} for the day {G2250}.

Fearing we might run on the rocks, they let out four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.

Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.

And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day.

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Cross-References

  • Acts 27:17 (4 votes)

    Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.

  • Hebrews 6:19 (3 votes)

    Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

  • Acts 27:30 (2 votes)

    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,

  • Acts 27:26 (2 votes)

    Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.

  • Psalms 130:6 (2 votes)

    My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the morning.

  • Acts 27:40 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Acts 27:41 (2 votes)

    And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.