G746 – arche – ἀρχή – a beginning, origin

• Old Testament Hebrew
• New Testament Greek

Strong’s ID:

G746

Greek Word:

ἀρχή

Transliteration:

arche

Pronunciation:

ar-khay’

Part of Speech:

noun feminine

Etymology:

from G756

Equivalents:

H7225

Usage Count:

58

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Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

a beginning, origin

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from G756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank):—beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) beginning, origin
2) the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader
3) that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause
4) the extremity of a thing
4a) of the corners of a sail
5) the first place, principality, rule, magistracy
5a) of angels and demons

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.

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