Strong's #536: aparche (pronounced ap-ar-khay')

from a compound of 575 and 756; a beginning of sacrifice, i.e. the (Jewish) first-fruit (figuratively):--first-fruits.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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aparchē

1) to offer firstlings or firstfruits

2) to take away the firstfruits of the productions of the earth which was offered to God. The first portion of the dough, from which sacred loaves were to be prepared. Hence term used of persons consecrated to God for all time.

3) persons superior in excellence to others of the same class

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from a compound of G575 and G756

Citing in TDNT: 1:484, 81

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Romans 8:23: "also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we"
Romans 11:16: "For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also"
Romans 16:5: "Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ."
1 Corinthians 15:20: "from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept."
1 Corinthians 15:23: "his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at"
1 Corinthians 16:15: "of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves"
James 1:18: "that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures."
Revelation 14:4: "These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the"