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Lexicon :: Strong's G536 - aparchē

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ἀπαρχή
Transliteration
aparchē (Key)
Pronunciation
ap-ar-khay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a compound of ἀπό (G575) and ἄρχομαι (G756)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:484,81

Strong’s Definitions

ἀπαρχή aparchḗ, ap-ar-khay'; from a compound of G575 and G756; a beginning of sacrifice, i.e. the (Jewish) first-fruit (figuratively):—first-fruits.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G536 in the following manner: firstfruits (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G536 in the following manner: firstfruits (8x).

  1. to offer firstlings or firstfruits

  2. to take away the firstfruits of the productions of the earth which was offered to God. The first portion of the dough, from which sacred loaves were to be prepared. Hence term used of persons consecrated to God for all time.

  3. persons superior in excellence to others of the same class

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀπαρχή aparchḗ, ap-ar-khay'; from a compound of G575 and G756; a beginning of sacrifice, i.e. the (Jewish) first-fruit (figuratively):—first-fruits.
STRONGS G536:
ἀπαρχή, -ῆς, ἡ, (from ἀπάρχομαι:
a. to offer firstlings or first-fruits;
b. to take away the first-fruits; cf. ἀπό in ἀποδεκατόω), in Sept. generally equivalent to רֵאשִׁית; the first-fruits of the productions of the earth (both those in a natural state and those prepared for use by hand), which were offered to God; cf. Winers RWB under the word Erstlinge [BB. DD. under the word First-fruits]: ἡ ἀπαρχή namely, τοῦ φυράματος, the first portion of the dough, from which sacred loaves were to be prepared (Numbers 15:19-21), Romans 11:16.
Hence, in a transferred use, employed
a. of persons consecrated to God, leading the rest in time: ἀπ. τῆς Ἀχαΐας the first person in Achaia to enroll himself as a Christian, 1 Corinthians 16:15; with εἰς Χριστόν added, Romans 16:5; with a reference to the moral creation effected by Christianity all the Christians of that age are called ἀπαρχή τις (a kind of first-fruits) τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ κτισμάτων, James 1:18 (see Huther at the passage) [noteworthy is εἵλατο ὑμᾶς ὁ θεὸς ἀπαρχήν etc. as first-fruits] 2 Thessalonians 2:13 L Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading; Christ is called ἀπ. τῶν κεκοιμημένων as the first one recalled to life of them that have fallen asleep, 1 Corinthians 15:20, 23 (here the phrase seems also to signify that by his case the future resurrection of Christians is guaranteed; because the first-fruits forerun and are, as it were, a pledge and promise of the rest of the harvest).
b. of persons superior in excellence to others of the same class: so in Revelation 14:4 of a certain class of Christians sacred and dear to God and Christ beyond all others (Schol. ad Euripides, Or. 96 ἀπαρχὴ ἐλέγετο οὐ μόνον τὸ πρῶτον τῇ τάξει, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ πρῶτον τῇ τιμῇ).
c. οἱ ἔχοντες τὴν ἀπ. τοῦ πνεύματος who have the first-fruits (of future blessings) in the Spirit (τοῦ πν. is genitive of apposition), Romans 8:23; cf. what Winer § 59, 8 a. says in opposition to those [e. g. Meyer, but see Weiss in edition 6] who take τοῦ πν. as a partitive genitive, so that οἱ ἔχ. τ. ἀπ. τοῦ πν. are distinguished from the great multitude who will receive the Spirit subsequently. (In Greek writings from [Sophocles] Herodotus down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
15:19; 15:20; 15:21
Romans
8:23; 11:16; 16:5
1 Corinthians
15:20; 15:23; 16:15
2 Thessalonians
2:13
James
1:18
Revelation
14:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G536 matches the Greek ἀπαρχή (aparchē),
which occurs 68 times in 57 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 22:29–Eze 48:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:29 - (LXX 22:28) Thou shalt not keep back the first-fruits of thy threshing floor and press. The first-born of thy sons thou shalt give to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - Thou shalt bring the first-offerings of the first-fruits of thy land into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, and take first-fruits of all, who may be disposed in their heart to give; and ye shall take my first-fruits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3 - And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold and silver and brass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5 - Take of yourselves an offering for the Lord: every one that engages in his heart [fn]shall bring the first-fruits to the Lord; gold, silver, brass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - And Moses commanded, and proclaimed in the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman any longer labour for the offerings of the sanctuary; and the people were restrained from bringing any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - (LXX 39:1) All the gold that was employed for the works according to all the fabrication of the holy things, was of the gold of the [fn]offerings, twenty-nine talents, and [fn]seven hundred and twenty shekels according to the holy shekel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - Ye shall bring them in the way of fruits to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:12 - And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the offerings of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest of it, then shall ye bring a sheaf, the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - And every first-fruits in all the sanctified things among the children of Israel, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be for the priest himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - Ye shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing-floor, so shall ye separate it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - even the first-fruits of your dough, and ye shall give the Lord a heave-offering throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8 - And the Lord said to Aaron, And, behold, I have given you the charge of the first-fruits of all things consecrated to me by the children of Israel; and I have given them to thee as an honour, and to thy sons after thee for a perpetual ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11 - And this shall be to you of the first-fruits of their gifts, of all the [fn]wave-offerings of the children of Israel; to thee have I given them and to thy sons and thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance; every clean person in thy house shall eat them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12 - Every first-offering of oil, and every first-offering of wine, their first-fruits of corn, whatsoever they may give to the Lord, to thee have I given them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:29 - Of all your gifts ye shall offer an offering to the Lord, and of every first-fruit the consecrated part from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - And thou shalt say to them, When ye shall offer the first-fruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing-floor, and as produce from the wine-press.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32 - And ye shall not bear sin by reason of it, [fn]for ye shall have offered an offering of first-fruits from it, and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29 - And thou shalt give them to Eleazar the priest as the first-fruits of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:6 - And ye shall carry thither your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first-fruits, and your [fn]vowed-offerings, and your freewill-offerings, and your offerings of thanksgiving, the first-born of your herds, and of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - And there shall be a place which the Lord thy God shall choose for his name to be called there, thither shall ye bring all things that I order you to-day; your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the first-fruits of your hands, and every choice gift of yours, whatsoever ye shall vow to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - Thou shalt not be able to eat in thy cities the tithe of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thine herd and of thy flock, and all your vows as many as ye shall have vowed, and your thank-offerings, and the first-fruits of thine hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - and the first-fruits of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil; and thou shalt give to him the first-fruits of the fleeces of thy sheep:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - that thou shalt take of the first of the fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou shalt put them into a basket, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the land, which thou gavest me, O Lord, a land flowing with milk and honey: and thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt worship before the Lord thy God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21 - And he saw his first-fruits, that there the land of the princes gathered with the chiefs of the people was divided; the Lord wrought righteousness, and his judgment with Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - And wherefore hast thou looked upon my incense-offering and my meat-offering with a shameless eye, and hast honoured thy sons above me, so that they should bless themselves with the first-fruits of every sacrifice of Israel before me?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:4 - And they shall ask thee how thou doest, and shall give thee two presents of bread, and thou shalt receive them of their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - Ye mountains of Gelbue, let not dew nor rain descend upon you, nor fields of first-fruits be upon you, for there the shield of the mighty ones has been grievously assailed; the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - And as he gave the command, Israel brought abundantly first-fruits of corn, and wine, and oil, and honey, and every fruit of the field: and the children of Israel and Juda brought tithes of everything abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - And Azarias the priest, the chief over the house of Sadoc, spoke to him, and said, From the time that the first-fruits began to be brought into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and drunk, and left even abundantly; for the Lord has blessed his people, and we have left to this amount.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12 - and they brought thither the first-fruits and the tithes faithfully: and Chonenias the Levite was superintendent over them, and Semei his brother was next.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - And Core, the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter eastward, was over the gifts, to distribute the first-fruits of the Lord, and the most holy things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - And I weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of the first-fruits of the house of our God, which the king, and his councillors, and his princes, and all Israel that were found, had dedicated.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - (LXX 10:38) And the first-fruits of our corn, and the fruit of every tree, of wine, and of oil, will we bring to the priests to the treasury of the house of God; and a tithe of our land to the Levites: for the Levites themselves shall receive tithes in all the cities of the land we cultivate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - (LXX 10:40) For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring into the treasuries the first-fruits of the corn, and wine, and oil; and there are the holy vessels, and the priests, and the ministers, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - And in that day they appointed men over the treasuries, for the treasures, the first-fruits, and the tithes, and for the chiefs of the cities who were assembled among them, to furnish portions for the priests and Levites: for there was joy in Juda over the priests and over the Levites that waited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first-fruits of the priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 - (LXX 77:51) and smote every first-born in the land of Egypt; the first-fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36 - (LXX 104:36) He smote also every first-born of their land, the first-fruits of all their labour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - and do ye pollute yourselves with the first-fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - For upon my holy mountain, on the high mountain, saith the Lord, even the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve me for ever: and there will I accept you, and there will I have respect to your first-fruits, and the first-fruits of your offerings, in all your holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - And the first-fruits of all things, and the first-born of all animals and all offerings, of all your first-fruits there shall be a share for the priests; and ye shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1 - And when ye measure the land for inheritance, ye shall set apart first-fruits to the Lord, a holy space of the land, in length twenty and five thousand reeds, and in breadth twenty thousand; it shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6 - And ye shall appoint for the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and in length twenty-five thousand: after the manner of the first-fruits of the holy portion, they shall be for all the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - And the prince shall have a portion out of this, and out of this there shall be a portion for the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and for the possession of the city, in front of the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and in front of the possession of the city westward, and from the western parts eastward: and the length shall be equal to one of the parts of the western borders, and the length shall be to the eastern borders of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - And these are the first-fruits which ye shall offer; a sixth part of a gomor of wheat, and the sixth part of it shall consist of an ephah of a cor of barley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16 - And all the people shall give these first-fruits to the prince of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:8 - And from the borders of Juda, from the eastern parts shall be the offering of first-fruits, in breadth twenty-five thousand reeds, and in length as one of the portions measured from the east even to the western parts: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.

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