Strong's #756: archomai (pronounced ar'-khom-ahee)
middle voice of 757 (through the implication, of precedence); to commence (in order of time):--(rehearse from the) begin(-ning).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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archomai
1) to be the first to do (anything), to begin
2) to be chief, leader, ruler
3) to begin, make a beginning
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: middle voice of G757 (through the implication of precedence)
Usage:
This word is used 84 times:
Luke 12:1: "of people, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his"
Luke 12:45: "delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and"
Luke 13:25: "and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without,"
Luke 13:26: "Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence,"
Luke 14:9: "place; and thou begin with shame to take the"
Luke 14:18: "they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said"
Luke 14:29: "is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,"
Luke 14:30: "Saying, This man began to build, and was not able"
Luke 15:14: "land; and he began to be in want."
Luke 15:24: "and is found. And they began to be merry."
Luke 19:37: "multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud"
Luke 19:45: "into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein,"
Luke 20:9: "Then began he to speak to the people this parable;"
Luke 21:28: "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your"
Luke 22:23: "And they began to inquire among themselves, which"
Luke 23:2: "And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting"
Luke 23:5: "throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place."
Luke 23:30: "Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us;"
Luke 24:27: "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets,"
Luke 24:47: "among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."
John 8:9: "their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto"
John 13:5: "into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet,"
Acts 1:1: "all that Jesus began both to do and teach,"
Acts 1:22: " Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that"
Acts 2:4: "with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as"
Acts 8:35: "his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached"
Acts 10:37: "throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the"
Acts 11:4: "But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,"
Acts 11:15: "And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell"
Acts 18:26: "And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue:"
Acts 24:2: "when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee"
Acts 27:35: "of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat."
2 Corinthians 3:1: " Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some"
1 Peter 4:17: "the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:"
