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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 Box Exo 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:29 - "Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:2 - "Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3 - This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5 - 'Take an offering for the LORD. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - Moses instructed them to take his message throughout the camp, saying, "Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary (namely, the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - You can present them to the LORD as an offering of first fruit, but they must not go up to the altar for a soothing aroma.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:12 - If a priest's daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - "Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - Every offering of all the Israelites' holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - You must give to the LORD some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8 - The LORD spoke to Aaron, "See, I have given you the responsibility for my raised offerings; I have given all the holy things of the Israelites to you as your priestly portion and to your sons as a perpetual ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11 - "And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12 - "All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the LORD, I have given to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:29 - From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the LORD, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - "Therefore you will say to them, 'When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32 - And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29 - You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:6 - And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you - your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - you must take the first of all the ground's produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground's produce that you, LORD, have given me." Then you must set it down before the LORD your God and worship before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21 - He has selected the best part for himself, for the portion of the ruler is set aside there; he came with the leaders of the people, he obeyed the righteous laws of the LORD and his ordinances with Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:4 - They will ask you how you're doing and will give you two loaves of bread. You will accept them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - O mountains of Gilboa, may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings! For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled; the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - When the edict was issued, the Israelites freely contributed the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him, "Since the contributions began arriving in the LORD's temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the LORD has blessed his people, and this large amount remains."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12 - they brought in the contributions, tithes, and consecrated items that had been offered. Konaniah, a Levite, was in charge of all this, assisted by his brother Shimei.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - Kore son of Imnah, a Levite and the guard on the east side, was in charge of the voluntary offerings made to God and disbursed the contributions made to the LORD and the consecrated items.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God - items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God."

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - On that day men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, first fruits, and tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions prescribed by the law for the priests and the Levites, for the people of Judah took delight in the priests and Levites who were ministering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:51

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 - He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36 - He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - When you present your sacrifices - when you make your sons pass through the fire - you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, I will not allow you to seek me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign LORD, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1 - "'When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles and the width three and one-third miles. This entire area will be holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6 - "'Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles wide and eight and a quarter miles long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - "'For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city, alongside the holy allotment and the allotted city, on the west side and on the east side; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - "'This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16 - All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:8 - "Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

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