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

Mark 10:28 Peter started (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to speak to him, “Well, we have left everything and have followed you.”
Mark 10:32 Now they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on ahead of them. They were filled with awe, but those who followed behind were afraid. And taking the twelve aside again, he began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to tell them the things that were going to happen to him:
Mark 10:41 And hearing this, the ten began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to be indignant at James and John.
Mark 10:42 And calling them to him, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are supposed to rule (archein | ἄρχειν | pres act inf ) over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their leaders domineer over them.
Mark 10:47 And hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to cry out and say, “Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!”
Mark 11:15 Then they went into Jerusalem. And entering the temple, he began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple; and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling pigeons,
Mark 12:1 And he began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it. He dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower; then he leased it out to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
Mark 13:5 And Jesus began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to speak to them, “Watch out lest someone mislead you.
Mark 14:19 They began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to be grieved and to say to him one after the other, “Surely not I?”
Mark 14:33 And he took along Peter and James and John with him, and began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to be distressed and troubled.
Mark 14:65 And some began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him, and to say to him, “Prophesy!” Even the officers received him with slaps to the face.
Mark 14:69 And the maid servant, seeing him, began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) again to say to those who were standing around, “This man is one of them.”
Mark 14:71 Then Peter began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to call down curses on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak!”
Mark 15:8 And coming up, the crowd began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.
Mark 15:18 Then they began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to greet him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”
Luke 3:8 Bear, then, fruits worthy of repentance. Do (arxēsthe | ἄρξησθε | aor mid subj 2 pl) not even begin (arxēsthe | ἄρξησθε | aor mid subj 2 pl) to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able, out of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.
Luke 3:23 So Jesus, when (archomenos | ἀρχόμενος | pres mid ptcp nom sg masc) he began (archomenos | ἀρχόμενος | pres mid ptcp nom sg masc) his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as it was thought) of Joseph, the son of Helix,
Luke 4:21 And he set (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) about telling them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.”
Luke 5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to ponder, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?”
Luke 7:15 The dead man sat up and began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.
Luke 7:24 When John’s messengers left, Jesus began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed being shaken by the wind?
Luke 7:38 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to bathe his feet with her tears. She kept wiping his feet with the hair of her head, and kissing them and pouring the perfume on them.
Luke 7:49 Then those reclining at table with him began (ērxanto | ἤρξαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) to say to themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
Luke 9:12 Now the day began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to wear away, so the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away so that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and secure lodging and get provisions, for we are in a desolate place here.”
Luke 11:29 As the crowds were getting larger, Jesus began (ērxato | ἤρξατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.