ἄρχω [in LXX for חָלַל, מָשַׁל, etc. ;] 1. to begin. 2. to rule (see DCG, ii, 538b.): with genitive, Mrk.10:42, Rom.15:12. Mid., to begin: before ἀπό, Mat.16:21 20:8, Luk.14:18 23:5 24:27, 47, Jhn.8:9, Act.1:22 8:35 10:37, 1Pe.4:17; with inf., an Aramaic pleonasm, Mrk.1:45 2:23 5:17, Luk.3:8, al. (see M, Pro.14:1-35 f.; Dalman, Words, 27; MM, see word) (AS)
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G757 — ἄρχω
archō · be first · Greek
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Matthew 4:17 · ἤρξατοFrom that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”Matthew 11:7 · ἤρξατοAs these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?Matthew 11:20 · ἤρξατοThen he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.Matthew 12:1 · ἤρξαντοAt that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.Matthew 14:30 · ἀρξάμενοςBut when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”Matthew 16:21 · ἤρξατοFrom that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.Matthew 16:22 · ἤρξατοPeter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”Matthew 18:24 · ἀρξαμένουWhen he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.Matthew 20:8 · ἀρξάμενοςWhen evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’Matthew 24:49 · ἄρξηταιand begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,Matthew 26:22 · ἤρξαντοThey were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”Matthew 26:37 · ἤρξατοHe took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.Matthew 26:74 · ἤρξατοThen he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.Mark 1:45 · ἤρξατοBut he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.Mark 2:23 · ἤρξαντοIt happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.Mark 4:1 · ἤρξατοAgain he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.Mark 5:17 · ἤρξαντοThey began to beg him to depart from their region.Mark 5:20 · ἤρξατοHe went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.Mark 6:2 · ἤρξατοWhen the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?Mark 6:7 · ἤρξατοHe called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.Mark 6:34 · ἤρξατοJesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.Mark 6:55 · ἤρξαντοand ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.Mark 8:11 · ἤρξαντοThe Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.Mark 8:31 · ἤρξατοHe began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.Mark 8:32 · ἤρξατοHe spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.Mark 10:28 · ἤρξατοPeter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”Mark 10:32 · ἤρξατοThey were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.Mark 10:41 · ἤρξαντοWhen the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.Mark 10:42 · ἄρχεινJesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.Mark 10:47 · ἤρξατοWhen he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”Mark 11:15 · ἤρξατοThey came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.Mark 12:1 · ἤρξατοHe began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.Mark 13:5 · ἤρξατοJesus, answering, began to tell them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.Mark 14:19 · ἤρξαντοThey began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”Mark 14:33 · ἤρξατοHe took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.Mark 14:65 · ἤρξαντόSome began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.Mark 14:69 · ἤρξατοThe maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.”Mark 14:71 · ἤρξατοBut he began to curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of whom you speak!”Mark 15:8 · ἤρξατοThe multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.Mark 15:18 · ἤρξαντοThey began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”Luke 3:8 · ἄρξησθεBring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!Luke 3:23 · ἀρχόμενοςJesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,Luke 4:21 · ἤρξατοHe began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”Luke 5:21 · ἤρξαντοThe scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”Luke 7:15 · ἤρξατοHe who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.Luke 7:24 · ἤρξατοWhen John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?Luke 7:38 · ἤρξατοStanding behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.Luke 7:49 · ἤρξαντοThose who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”Luke 9:12 · ἤρξατοThe day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”Luke 11:29 · ἤρξατοWhen the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.Luke 11:53 · ἤρξαντοAs he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;Luke 12:1 · ἤρξατοMeanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.Luke 12:45 · ἄρξηταιBut if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,Luke 13:25 · ἄρξησθεWhen once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’Luke 13:26 · ἄρξεσθεThen you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’Luke 14:9 · ἄρξῃand he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.Luke 14:18 · ἤρξαντοThey all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’Luke 14:29 · ἄρξωνταιOr perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,Luke 14:30 · ἤρξατοsaying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’Luke 15:14 · ἤρξατοWhen he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.Luke 15:24 · ἤρξαντοfor this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.Luke 19:37 · ἤρξαντοAs he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,Luke 19:45 · ἤρξατοHe entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,Luke 20:9 · ἬρξατοHe began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.Luke 21:28 · ἈρχομένωνBut when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”Luke 22:23 · ἤρξαντοThey began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.Luke 23:2 · ἬρξαντοThey began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”Luke 23:5 · ἀρξάμενοςBut they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”Luke 23:30 · ἄρξονταιThen they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’Luke 24:27 · ἀρξάμενοςBeginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.Luke 24:47 · ἀρξάμενοιand that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.John 13:5 · ἤρξατοThen he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.Acts 1:1 · ἤρξατοThe first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,Acts 1:22 · ἀρξάμενοςbeginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”Acts 2:4 · ἤρξαντοThey were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.Acts 8:35 · ἀρξάμενοςPhilip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.Acts 10:37 · ἀρξάμενοςyou yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;Acts 11:4 · ἀρξάμενοςBut Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,Acts 11:15 · ἄρξασθαίAs I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.Acts 18:26 · ἤρξατοHe began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.Acts 24:2 · ἤρξατοWhen he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,Acts 27:35 · ἤρξατοWhen he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.Romans 15:12 · ἄρχεινAgain, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”2 Corinthians 3:1 · ἈρχόμεθαAre we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?1 Peter 4:17 · ἄρξασθαιFor the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?