Word Summary
enarchomai: to begin, to make a beginning
Original Word: ἐνάρχομαιTransliteration: enarchomai
Phonetic Spelling: (en-ar'-khom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to begin, to make a beginning
Meaning: to begin, to make a beginning
Strong's Concordance
to begin
From en and archomai; to commence on -- rule (by mistake for archo).
see GREEK en
see GREEK archomai
see GREEK archo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1728: ἐνάρχομαιἐνάρχομαι: 1 aorist
ἐνηρξαμην;
to begin, make a beginning: with the dative of the thing from which the beginning is made,
Galatians 3:3;
τί,
Philippians 1:6;
2 Corinthians 8:6 Lachmann edition min. (
Polybius,
Dionysius Halicarnassus,
Plutarch,
Lucian; generally with the genitive of the thing begun, as in Sir. 36:29 (
); ; 1 Macc. 9:54. in Euripides, with the accusative, of beginning sacrificial rites; at length, to govern, rule, with the genitive Joshua 10:24 the Sept.) (Compare: προ(ενάρχομαι.) STRONGS NT 1728a: ἐνγράφωἐνγράφω, see ἐν, III. 2 and 3.