Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Read in context →But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
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châlal · khaw-lal'
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Strong's KJV usage: begin (× men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Strong's first: Genesis 11:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 9:6
Open full H2490 profile →árchomai · ar'-khom-ahee
to commence (in order of time)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(rehearse from the) begin(-ning).
Strong's first: Matthew 24:49Strong's last: 1 Peter 4:17
Open full G756 profile →méllō · mel'-lo
to intend, i.e. be about to be, do, or suffer something (of persons or things, especially events; in the sense of purpose, duty, necessity, probability, possibility, or hesitation)
Strong's KJV usage: :--about, after that, be (almost), (that which is, things, + which was for) to come, intend, was to (be), mean, mind, be at the point, (be) ready, + return, shall (begin), (which, that) should (after, afterwards, hereafter) tarry, which was for, will, would, be yet.
Strong's first: Revelation 10:7Strong's last: Revelation 10:7
Open full G3195 profile →tᵉchillâh · tekh-il-law'
a commencement; relatively original (adverb, -ly)
Strong's KJV usage: begin(-ning), first (time).
Strong's first: Nehemiah 11:17Strong's last: Nehemiah 11:17
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And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
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BEGIN', verb intransitive preterit tense began; participle passive begun. [Latin genero, gigno; Heb.to make ready, to adapt, prepare, establish.]
1. To have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began. Luke 1:1.
Judgment must begin at the house of God. 1 Peter 4:17.
From Nimrod first the savage race began.
And tears began to flow.
2. To do the first act; to enter upon something new; to take the first step; as, begin my muse.
BEGIN every day to repent.
When I begin I will also make an end. 1 Samuel 3:12.
BEGIN'verb intransitive To do the first act of any thing; to enter on; to commence.
Ye nymphs of Solyma, begin the song.
And this they begin to do. Genesis 11:6.
2. To trace from any thing, as the first ground; to lay the foundation.
The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God.
To begin with, to enter upon first; to use or employ first; as, to begin with the Latin Grammar; to begin business with a small capital.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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