# G746 ἀρχή

ἀρχή (archḗ), Strong’s G746: (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank) KJV: beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate)…

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*archḗ* — (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)

KJV: beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality…

Derived from [ἄρχομαι árchomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G756) (to commence)

Occurs 274 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 19:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/19?v=4) — He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
- [Matthew 19:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/19?v=8) — He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the…
- [Matthew 24:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/24?v=8) — But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
- [Matthew 24:21](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/24?v=21) — for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever…
- [Mark 1:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/1?v=1) — The beginning of the Good News of Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of God.
- [Mark 10:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/10?v=6) — But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
- [Mark 13:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/13?v=8) — For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There…
- [Mark 13:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/13?v=19) — For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation…
- [Luke 1:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/1?v=2) — even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
- [Luke 12:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=11) — When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will…