Strong's #746: arche (pronounced ar-khay')
from 756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank):--beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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archē
1) beginning, origin
2) the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader
3) that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause
4) the extremity of a thing
4a) of the corners of a sail
5) the first place, principality, rule, magistracy
5a) of angels and demons
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G756
Citing in TDNT: 1:479, 81
Usage:
This word is used 58 times:
Matthew 19:4: "that he which made them at the beginning made them male and"
Matthew 19:8: "your wives: but from the beginning it was not so."
Matthew 24:8: "All these are the beginning of sorrows."
Matthew 24:21: "was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no,"
Mark 1:1: " The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;"
Mark 10:6: "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male"
Mark 13:8: "famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows."
Mark 13:19: "was not from the beginning of the creation which God"
Luke 1:2: "Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and"
Luke 12:11: "the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought"
Luke 20:20: "that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor."
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word"
John 1:2: "The same was in the beginning with God."
John 2:11: "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee,"
John 6:64: "Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not,"
John 8:25: "I said unto you from the beginning."
John 8:44: "was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in"
John 15:27: "with me from the beginning."
John 16:4: "not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you."
Acts 10:11: "sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the"
Acts 11:5: "from heaven by four corners; and it came even to"
Acts 11:15: "as on us at the beginning."
Acts 26:4: "from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation"
Romans 8:38: "nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,"
1 Corinthians 15:24: "when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and"
Ephesians 1:21: "Far above all principality, and power, and might, and"
Ephesians 3:10: "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly"
Ephesians 6:12: "and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against"
Philippians 4:15: "also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed"
Colossians 1:16: "or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created"
Colossians 1:18: "church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;"
Colossians 2:10: "the head of all principality and power:"
Colossians 2:15: "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over"
2 Thessalonians 2:13: "because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation"
Titus 3:1: "Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be"
Hebrews 1:10: "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and"
Hebrews 2:3: "so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the"
Hebrews 3:14: "if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto"
Hebrews 5:12: "again which be the first principles of the oracles of God;"
Hebrews 6:1: "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on"
Hebrews 7:3: "without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life;"
2 Peter 3:4: "all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
1 John 1:1: "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen"
1 John 2:7: "which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is"
1 John 2:7: "which ye have heard from the beginning."
1 John 2:13: "ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because"
1 John 2:14: "ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because"
1 John 2:24: "which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from"
1 John 2:24: "that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye"
1 John 3:8: "devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son"
