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; (b) relatively: Heb.7:3; ἀ. ὠδίνων, Mat.24:8, Mrk.13:9; τ. σημείων, Jhn.2:11; τ. ὑποστάσεως, Heb.3:14; τ. λογίων, Heb.5:12; ὁ τ. ἀρχῆς τ. Χριστοῦ λόγος, the account of the beginning, the elementary view of Christ, Heb.6:1; ἀρχὴν λαμβάνειν, to begin, Heb.2:3; ἐξ ἀ., Jhn.6:64 16:4; ἀπ᾽ ἀ., Luk.1:2, Jhn.15:27, 1Jn.2:7 Jn 2:24 Jn 3:11, 2Jn.5-6; ἐν ἀ., Act.11:15 26:4, Php.4:15; τὴν ἀρχήν, adverbially, at all (Hdt., al.; v MM, see word): Jhn.8:25. 2. an extremity, a corner: Act.10:11 11:5. 3. sovereignty, principality, rule (cf. DB, i, 616 f.): Luk.12:11 20:20, Rom.8:38, 1Co.15:24, Eph.1:21 3:10 6:12, Col.1:16 2:10, 15 Tit.3:1, Ju 6 (Cremer, 113).† (AS)
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G746 — ἀρχή
archē · beginning · Greek
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Matthew 19:4 · ἀρχῆςAnd he answering said to them, ‘Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them,Matthew 19:8 · ἀρχῆςHe saith to them—‘Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.Matthew 24:8 · ἀρχὴand all these are the beginning of sorrows;Matthew 24:21 · ἀρχῆςfor there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.Mark 1:1 · ἈρχὴA beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.Mark 10:6 · ἀρχῆςbut from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;Mark 13:8 · ἀρχὴfor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles; beginnings of sorrows are these.Mark 13:19 · ἀρχῆςfor those days shall be tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation that God created, till now, and may not be;Luke 1:2 · ἀρχῆςas they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word,—Luke 12:11 · ἀρχὰς‘And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,Luke 20:20 · ἀρχῇAnd, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,John 1:1 · ἀρχῇIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;John 1:2 · ἀρχῇthis one was in the beginning with God;John 2:11 · ἀρχὴνThis beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;John 6:64 · ἀρχῆςbut there are certain of you who do not believe;’ for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,John 8:25 · ἀρχὴνThey said, therefore, to him, ‘Thou—who art thou?’ and Jesus said to them, ‘Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;John 8:44 · ἀρχῆς‘Ye are of a father—the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar—also his father.John 15:27 · ἀρχῆςand ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.John 16:4 · ἀρχῆςBut these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said them to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;Acts 10:11 · ἀρχαῖςand he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,Acts 11:5 · ἀρχαῖς‘I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;Acts 11:15 · ἀρχῇ.‘And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,Acts 26:4 · ἀρχῆς‘The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth—which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem—know do all the Jews,Romans 8:38 · ἀρχαὶfor I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,1 Corinthians 15:24 · ἀρχὴνthen—the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power—Ephesians 1:21 · ἀρχῆςfar above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;Ephesians 3:10 · ἀρχαῖςthat there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,Ephesians 6:12 · ἀρχάς,because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;Philippians 4:15 · ἀρχῇand ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;Colossians 1:16 · ἀρχαὶbecause in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,Colossians 1:18 · ἀρχή,And himself is the head of the body—the assembly—who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things—himself—first,Colossians 2:10 · ἀρχῆςand ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,Colossians 2:15 · ἀρχὰςhaving stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly—having triumphed over them in it.Titus 3:1 · ἀρχαῖςRemind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,Hebrews 1:10 · ἀρχάς,and, ‘Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;Hebrews 2:3 · ἀρχὴνhow shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving—to be spoken through the Lord—by those having heard was confirmed to us,Hebrews 3:14 · ἀρχὴνfor partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,Hebrews 5:12 · ἀρχῆςfor even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,Hebrews 6:1 · ἀρχῆςWherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,Hebrews 7:3 · ἀρχὴνwithout father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.2 Peter 3:4 · ἀρχῆςand saying, ‘Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;’1 John 1:1 · ἀρχῆς,That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life—1 John 2:7 · ἀρχῆς·Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning—the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;1 John 2:13 · ἀρχῆς.I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:1 John 2:14 · ἀρχῆς.I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.1 John 2:24 · ἀρχῆς · ἀρχῆςYe, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,1 John 3:8 · ἀρχῆςhe who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;1 John 3:11 · ἀρχῆςbecause this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,2 John 1:5 · ἀρχῆς,and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,2 John 1:6 · ἀρχῆς,and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,Jude 1:6 · ἀρχὴνmessengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,Revelation 3:14 · ἀρχὴ‘And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness—the faithful and true—the chief of the creation of God;Revelation 21:6 · ἀρχὴand He said to me, ‘It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;Revelation 22:13 · ἀρχὴI am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and End—the First and the Last.