Quick Definition
I begin
Strong's Definition
to commence on
Derivation: from G1722 (ἐν) and G756 (ἄρχομαι);
KJV Usage: rule (by mistake for G757 (ἄρχω))
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐνάρχομαι: 1 aorist ἐνηρξαμην; to begin, make a beginning: with the dative of the thing from which the beginning is made, Gal_3:3; τί, Php_1:6; 2Co_8:6 Lachmann edition min. (Polybius, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Lucian; generally with the genitive of the thing begun, as in Sir. 36:29 (); ; 1Ma_9:54. in Euripides, with the accusative, of beginning sacrificial rites; at length, to govern, rule, with the genitive Jos_10:24 the Sept.) (Compare: προ(ενάρχομαι.)
STRONGS NT 1728a: ἐνγράφωἐνγράφω, see ἐν, III. 2 and 3.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐνάρχομαι enarchomai 2x
to begin, commence, Gal_3:3 ; Php_1:6
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐν -άρχομαι ,
[in LXX chiefly for H2490 hi .;]
to begin, make a beginning: Gal_3:3 , Php_1:6 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐνάρχομαι [page 211]
The ritual sense, which underlies this word in classical Greek, may perhaps still be latent in its two NT occurrences Gal_3:3 , Php_1:6 (cf. 2Co_8:6 B), but how completely the simple sense begin prevailed in late Greek may be seen from P Tebt I. 24 .34 (B.C. 117) διαλαμβάνοντες εἰς ἀπραξίαν ἡμᾶς περιστήσειν ὁπότε δὴ ἐνάρξασθαι , ἀνεχώρησαν κτλ ., supposing that they would bring me to a standstill at the commencement, they retired etc. (Edd.) : cf. .36 ἐναρχομένου τ [οῦ Με ]χείρ , at the beginning of Mecheir. See also Vett. Val. p. 212 .25 ἐὰν δέ πως καὶ ἕτερόν τινα ἐναρξάμενον πράγματος εὕρῃς κτλ .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐνάρχομαι fut. ξομαι Dep. in sacrifices, "to begin the offering", by taking the barley (οὐλοχύται) from the basket (κανοῦν), Eur. :—perf. in pass. sense, id=Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐν-άρχομαι
[in LXX chiefly for חָלַל hi. ;]
to begin, make a beginning: Gal.3:3, Php.1:6.†
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