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:
1 John 3:11: "that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."
2 John 1:5: "that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another."
2 John 1:6: "as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it."
Jude 1:6: "which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,"
Revelation 1:8: "am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith"
Revelation 3:14: "true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;"
Revelation 21:6: "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the"
Revelation 22:13: "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first"
