ἄρχομαι
árchomai · G756 · Greek · 84 occurrences
Meanings
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to begin, to commence, beginning
To initiate an action, process, or state of being
ExamplesMatthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 11:7 As these disciples of John were going away, Jesus began speaking to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
Matthew 11:20 Then He began to reprimand the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.
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beginning, to begin
A point of time at the beginning of a duration
ExamplesMatthew 16:21 From that time Jesus began to point out to His disciples that it was necessary for Him to go to Jerusalem and to suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised up on the third day.
Acts 1:22 beginning with the baptism of John until the day that He was taken up from us—one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
Acts 10:37 you yourselves know the thing that happened throughout Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed.
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָלַל châlal · H2490 · to profane oneself, to profane
- חָלַל (châlal, H2490) חָלַל denotes the initiation or commencement of an action (particularly in the hiphil stem "to begin"), serving as the standard Hebrew rendering of ἄρχομαι (árchomai, G756) ἄρχομαι's core sense "to commence" across temporal and sequential contexts.
- יָאַל yâʼal · H2974 · to be foolish, to be ignorant, to be without understanding
- יָאַל (yâʼal, H2974) emphasizes the volitional or willing aspect of beginning an action ("be content to begin," "willingly undertake"), whereas ἄρχομαι (árchomai, G756) is the unmarked general Greek term for commencing in temporal sequence without inherent volitional coloring.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Beginning, to begin67.65
- Used of the onset of an action or period, as when Jesus begins to preach and call for repentance in Matthew 4:17.
- To begin, to commence, beginning68.1
- Used as an auxiliary marking the initiation of an activity, as when the disciples begin to pass through the grainfields in Matthew 12:1.
Word family 24 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see ἄρχω.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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