Vocabulary Form
ἄρχωμαι
Definition

I begin

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ἀρχ
Frequency
86
GK
806
Forms
ἄρξω, ἤρξα, -, -, -
Cognates

As a prefix it means "chief" (e.g., archbishop, archangel).

Mnemonics

cbisher

December 8, 2015

Hi Bill. Looks like you have the middle or passive instead of the active. My vocab card and the audio says arxw.

Notes

ἄρχω occurs primarily in the middle in the New Testament.

Biblical Concordance

Luke 11:53 When he went out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to be terribly hostile, and to question him sharply about many things,
Luke 12:1 In the meantime, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling one another, Jesus began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to say (to his disciples first), “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins (arxētai | ἄρξηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk;
Luke 13:25 “Once the owner of the house has risen and shut the door, and you are left (arxēsthe | ἄρξησθε | aor mid subj 2 pl) standing outside, knocking at the door, saying, ‘Sir, open the door for us!’ then he will respond to you, ‘I do not know you or where you are from.’
Luke 13:26 Then you will (arxesthe | ἄρξεσθε | fut mid ind 2 pl) say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
Luke 14:9 and the one who invited both you and him will say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then with shame you will proceed (arxē | ἄρξῃ | fut mid ind 2 sg) to take the least important place.
Luke 14:18 But one after another they all began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I bought a field, and I must go out to see it. I ask you, have me excused.’
Luke 14:29 otherwise, when he has laid the foundation and is not able to complete the tower, all who see it will begin (arxōntai | ἄρξωνται | aor mid subj 3 pl) to ridicule him,
Luke 14:30 saying, ‘This man began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to build and was not able to complete.’
Luke 15:14 When he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that country, and he began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to be in need.
Luke 15:24 for this, my son, was dead, and has come back to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ So they began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to celebrate.
Luke 19:37 As he was already approaching to the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen,
Luke 19:45 Having entered the temple, Jesus began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to drive out those who were selling things,
Luke 20:9 Then he began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenants; then he went away for quite some time.
Luke 21:28 Now when these things begin (archomenōn | ἀρχομένων | pres mid ptcp gen pl neut) to happen, straighten yourselves up and raise your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near.”
Luke 22:23 And they began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to question one another, which of them it might be who would do this.
Luke 23:2 And they began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to accuse him, saying, “We found this man trying to mislead our nation, opposing the payment of taxes to Caesar, and claiming himself to be Christ, a king.”
Luke 23:5 But they kept insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”
Luke 23:30 Then they will begin (arxontai | ἄρξονται | fut mid ind 3 pl) to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’
Luke 24:27 Then, beginning (arxamenos | ἀρξάμενος | aor mid ptcp nom sg masc) with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the Scriptures.
Luke 24:47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning (arxamenoi | ἀρξάμενοι | aor mid ptcp nom pl masc) from Jerusalem.
John 8:9 At this, those who had heard began to leave one by one, starting (arxamenoi | ἀρξάμενοι | aor mid ptcp nom pl masc) with the oldest; and Jesus alone was left, with the woman standing before him.
John 13:5 Then he poured water into a basin and began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around his waist.
Acts 1:1 I wrote the first book, Theophilus, about everything that Jesus began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to do and to teach,
Acts 1:22 beginning (arxamenos | ἀρξάμενος | aor mid ptcp nom sg masc) from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us — that one of these become with us a witness of his resurrection.”