Beginning
ἀρχήStrong’s G0746archē
Appears in 55 verses of the New Testament
In short
Archē is the Greek word usually translated “beginning”, “rulers” and “rule”. It appears in 55 verses of the New Testament.
“Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,”
Meaning
Usually translated “beginning”, “rulers” and “rule”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- beginning 42
- rulers 5
- rule 2
- corners 2
- principalities 1
- dominion 1
- principality 1
- to rulers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 8
- 1 John 7
- Hebrews 6
- Matthew 4
- Mark 4
- Acts 4
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Peter 3:4In contextAnd saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- 2 John 1:5In contextAnd now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
- 2 John 1:6In contextAnd this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
- Jude 1:6In contextAnd the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
- Matthew 19:4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
- Matthew 19:8He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
All 55 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
ἀρχή archē · beginning
ἀρχή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX for קֶדֶם, רֹאשׁ, רֹאשׁ, etc. ;] 1. beginning, origin; (a) absol., of the beginning of all things: of God as the Eternal, the First Cause, Rev.21:6 (cf. 18); similarly, of Christ, Rev.22:13; of Christ as the uncreated principle, the active cause of creation, Rev.3:14; in his relation to the Church, Col.1:18; ἐν ἀ., Jhn.1:1-2; ἀπ᾽ ἀ. (and ἀπ᾽ ἀ. κτισεως), Mat.19:4, 8 24:21, Mrk.10:6 13:19, Jhn.8:44, 2Th.2:13, 2Pe.3:4, 1Jn.1:1 Jn 2:13-14 Jn 2:24; κατ ἀρχἀς, Heb.1:10; …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beginning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEGIN'NING, participle present
tense First entering upon; commencing; giving rise or original; taking rise or origin.
All definitions and other forms of “beginning”
BEGIN'NING, noun
The first cause; origin.
- That which is first; the first state; commencement; entrance into being.“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1
- The rudiments, first ground or materials.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.