Strong's Number G746

ἀρχή

arche · ar-khay'

Transliteration:

arche{ar-khay'}

Word Origin:

from 756

TDNT:

1:479,81

Part of Speech:

noun feminine

Strong's Definition:

(properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)

Usage in the KJV:

beginning 40, principality 8, corner 2, first 4, misc 6

Total: 58
Occurs 56 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

beginning, origin
the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader
that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause
the extremity of a thing
1. of the corners of a sail
the first place, principality, rule, magistracy
1. of angels and demons