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Lexicon :: Strong's G756 - archomai

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ἄρχομαι
Transliteration
archomai (Key)
Pronunciation
ar'-khom-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice of ἄρχω (G757) (through the implication of precedence)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:478,*

Strong’s Definitions

ἄρχομαι árchomai, ar'-khom-ahee; middle voice of G757 (through the implication, of precedence); to commence (in order of time):—(rehearse from the) begin(-ning).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 84x

The KJV translates Strong's G756 in the following manner: begin (83x), rehearse from the beginning (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 84x
The KJV translates Strong's G756 in the following manner: begin (83x), rehearse from the beginning (1x).

  1. to be the first to do (anything), to begin

  2. to be chief, leader, ruler

  3. to begin, make a beginning

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄρχομαι árchomai, ar'-khom-ahee; middle voice of G757 (through the implication, of precedence); to commence (in order of time):—(rehearse from the) begin(-ning).
STRONGS G756:
ἄρχομαι, see ἄρχω.

Related entry:
ἄρχι, (from ἄρχω, ἀρχός), an inseparable prefix, usually to names of office or dignity, to designate the one who is placed over the rest that hold the office (German Ober-, Erz-, [English arch- (chief-, high-)]), as ἀρχάγγελος, ἀρχιποίμην [which see], ἀρχιερεύς, ἀρχίατρος, ἀρχιευνοῦχος, ἀρχυπερέτης (in Egyptian inscriptions), etc., most of which belong to Alexandrian and Byzantine Greek. Cf. Thiersch, De Pentateuchi versione Alex. p. 77f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G756 matches the Greek ἄρχομαι (archomai),
which occurs 31 times in 31 verses in 'Luk' in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:8 - Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:23 - Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:21 - And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:21 - And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:15 - And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus[fn] gave him to his mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:24 - When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus[fn] began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:38 - and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:49 - Then those who were at table with him began to say among[fn] themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:12 - Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:29 - When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:53 - As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:1 - In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:45 - But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:25 - When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:26 - Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:9 - and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:18 - But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:29 - Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:30 - saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:14 - And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:24 - For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:37 - As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:45 - And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:9 - And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:28 - Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:23 - And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:2 - And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:5 - But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:30 - Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 24:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:27 - And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 24:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:47 - and that repentance for[fn] the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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