ἨΡΞΑΤΟ, ἠρξατο
ĒRXATO, ērxato
Sounds Like: eer-XAH-toh
Translations: began, started
From the root: ΑΡΧΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a verb form meaning 'he/she/it began' or 'he/she/it started'. It is used to indicate the commencement of an action or state, often implying that the subject initiated the action themselves (middle voice) or that the action simply began (passive voice).
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Middle/Passive, 3rd Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G0756 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:204
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:3
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 0:21, 1:34, 3:90, 10:181, 19:314
- Book 3 — 1:13
- Book 5 — 10:346
- Book 6 — 7:143, 8:166, 10:194, 11:209
- Book 7 — 1:20, 3:61, 4:95, 11:268, 11:289, 12:297, 13:321, 14:380
- Book 8 — 1:3, 2:27, 3:61, 3:62, 4:119, 7:192, 10:243, 11:276, 12:295, 13:342, 13:354
- Book 9 — 6:129, 6:132, 8:179, 9:193, 12:256
- Book 10 — 3:45, 8:138, 11:237
- Book 11 — 3:38, 3:43, 3:49, 3:55, 3:64, 5:131, 5:160, 6:265, 7:300
- Book 12 — 2:99, 2:110, 6:172, 6:173, 7:317
- Book 13 — 3:78, 6:197, 7:120, 8:249, 10:289
- Book 18 — 1:25
- Book 19 — 2:204
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 1:6, 2:9, 3:14, 28:9
- Book Two — 11:15, 18:37
- Book Five — 4:48, 9:62, 12:17
- Book Six — 5:30, 6:12
Justin Martyr
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:11
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 2:3, 9:20, 10:8
- Deuteronomy — 1:5
- Judges — 1:27, 1:35, 13:25, 16:19, 16:22, 17:11, 20:39
- 1 Samuel — 14:35
- 2 Samuel — 24:15
- 1 Kings — 2:46
- 2 Kings — 10:32, 15:37
- 1 Chronicles — 1:10, 27:24
- 2 Chronicles — 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 31:21, 34:3, 36:4
- Ezra (Alpha) — 3:16, 4:1, 4:13, 4:33, 5:52, 5:54
- Ezra (Beta) — 3:8
- Tobit — 2:13, 2:13, 8:5, 8:5, 10:3, 10:4, 10:4
- 1 Maccabees — 3:25, 9:73, 10:10, 13:42, 15:40
- 2 Maccabees — 9:11
- 4 Maccabees — 5:15
- Hosea — 5:11
- Micah — 1:12
- Jonah — 3:4
- Enoch — 89:43, 89:44
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 12 — 4:2
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 11:4
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 4:17, 11:7, 11:20, 16:21, 16:22, 26:37, 26:74
- Mark — 1:45, 4:1, 5:20, 6:2, 6:7, 6:34, 8:31, 8:32, 10:28, 10:32, 10:47, 11:15, 12:1, 13:5, 14:33, 14:69, 14:71, 15:8
- Luke — 4:21, 7:15, 7:24, 7:38, 9:12, 11:29, 12:1, 14:30, 15:14, 19:45, 20:9
- John — 13:5
- Acts — 1:1, 18:26, 24:2, 27:35
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΡΧΟΜΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΡΞΑΜΕΝΗΝ — beginning, having begun, starting, having started, a beginning one, a starting one
- ἈΡΞΑΜΕΝΟΝ — beginning, having begun, to begin, to rule, to be ruler
- ἈΡΞΑΜΕΝΟΥΣ — beginning, having begun, to begin, to have begun
- ἈΡΞΑΜΕΝΩ — to begin, to rule, to be first, to lead, to make a beginning, to have begun
- ἈΡΞΑΣΘΕ — begin, start, commence
- ἈΡΞΗΣΘΕ — you will begin, you will start, you will commence
- ἈΡΞΟΝΤΑΙ — they will begin, they will start, they will rule, they will govern
- ἈΡΞΩΜΕΘΑ — let us begin, we may begin, we should begin
- ἈΡΧΟΜΕΝΟΙ — beginning, those who are beginning, those who are ruled, those who are governed, subjects
- ἈΡΧΟΜΕΝΟΥ — beginning, being begun, ruling, being ruled, of beginning, of ruling
- ἈΡΧΟΜΕΝΩ — beginning, ruling, being ruled, those who are ruled, those who are governed, subjects
- ΑΡΞΑΜΕΝΟΙ — beginning, having begun, starting, having started
- ΑΡΞΑΜΕΝΟΥ — of having begun, of beginning, of having ruled, of ruling
- ΑΡΞΟΝΤΑΙ — they will begin, they will start
- ΑΡΧΟΜΑΙ — I begin, I commence, I make a beginning, I am about to
- ΑΡΧΟΜΕ — beginning, starting, commencing, leading, ruling, governing
- ΑΡΧΟΜΕΘΑ — we begin, we are beginning, we set out, we make a beginning
- ΑΡΧΟΜΕΝΩΝ — beginning, of those beginning, of those who begin, of those who are beginning, of those who are ruled, of those who are led
- ἨΡΓΜΑΙ — I have begun, I have started, I have ruled, I have governed
- ἨΡΞΑΜΗΝ — I began, I started
- ΗΡΚΤΟ — had begun, had been begun, had been ruled, had been led
- ΗΡΞΑΜ‾Η‾ — I began, I started
- ΗΡΞΑΝΤΟ — they began, they started
- ΤΟΙΣἈΡΞΑΜΕΝΟΙΣ — (to) those who began, (to) those who started, (to) those who led
- ΩΣἨΡΞΑΤΟ — as it began, as it was begun, how it began, how it was begun
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