Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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Beginning
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Revelation 22:13
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
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12 occurrences in 12 verses.
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This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Genesis
55 verses
Exodus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
33 verses
Judges
11 verses
Ruth
22 verses
2 Samuel
22 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
Ezra
11 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Proverbs
66 verses
Ecclesiastes
33 verses
Isaiah
1212 verses
Jeremiah
55 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
11 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Amos
11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Matthew
66 verses
Mark
33 verses
Luke
44 verses
John
1010 verses
Acts
55 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
Philippians
11 verses
Colossians
11 verses
2 Thessalonians
11 verses
Hebrews
33 verses
2 Peter
22 verses
1 John
97 verses
2 John
22 verses
Revelation
44 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
ἀρχή
archḗ · ar-khay'
39 times translated as this KJV form58 total Strong's occurrences
(properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)
Strong's KJV usage: :--beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 19:4Strong's last: Revelation 22:13
Open full G746 profile →רֵאשִׁית
rêʼshîyth · ray-sheeth'
18 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
Strong's KJV usage: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 1:1Strong's last: Micah 1:13
Open full H7225 profile →תְּחִלָּה
tᵉchillâh · tekh-il-law'
14 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
a commencement; relatively original (adverb, -ly)
Strong's KJV usage: begin(-ning), first (time).
Strong's first: Genesis 13:3Strong's last: Amos 7:1
Open full H8462 profile →רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh · roshe
12 times translated as this KJV form598 total Strong's occurrences
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Strong's KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 40:1
Open full H7218 profile →ἄρχομαι
árchomai · ar'-khom-ahee
8 times translated as this KJV form89 total Strong's occurrences
to commence (in order of time)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(rehearse from the) begin(-ning).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 14:30Strong's last: Acts 11:4
Open full G756 profile →רִאשׁוֹן
riʼshôwn · ree-shone'
4 times translated as this KJV form182 total Strong's occurrences
first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
Strong's KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ruth 3:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 17:12
Open full H7223 profile →אָז
ʼâz · awz
2 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
at that time or place; also as a conjunction, therefore
Strong's KJV usage: beginning, for, from, hitherto, now, of old, once, since, then, at which time, yet.
Strong's first: Isaiah 48:3Strong's last: Isaiah 48:5
Open full H227 profile →ἄνωθεν
ánōthen · an'-o-then
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
from above; by analogy, from the first; by implication, anew
Strong's KJV usage: :--from above, again, from the beginning (very first), the top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 26:5Strong's last: Acts 26:5
Open full G509 profile →πρῶτον
prōton · pro'-ton
1 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
firstly (in time, place, order, or importance)
Strong's KJV usage: :--before, at the beginning, chiefly (at, at the) first (of all).
Strong's first: John 2:10Strong's last: John 2:10
Open full G4412 profile →πρῶτος
prōtos · pro'-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form101 total Strong's occurrences
foremost (in time, place, order or importance)
Strong's KJV usage: :--before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all), former.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:20Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:20
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H8462
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
no direct Strong's tag
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
no direct Strong's tag
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
H7218
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
H7218
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
H7218
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
H7225
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
H227
I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
H227
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
no direct Strong's tag
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
H7218
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
no direct Strong's tag
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
beginning
BEGIN'NING, participle present tense First entering upon; commencing; giving rise or original; taking rise or origin.
BEGIN'NING, noun The first cause; origin.
I am the beginning and the ending. Revelation 1:8.
1. That which is first; the first state; commencement; entrance into being.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1.
3. The rudiments, first ground or materials.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow
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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