'Aground' in the Bible
After hoisting it up, they used ropes and tackle and girded the ship. Then, fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the drift-anchor, and in this way they were driven along.
However, we must run aground on a certain island.”
Then, fearing we might run aground in some rocky place, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.
When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
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.