ἨΡΞΑΜΗΝ, ἠρξαμην
ĒRXAMĒN, ērxamēn
Sounds Like: heer-KSAH-meen
Translations: I began, I started
From the root: ΑΡΧΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to begin' or 'to start'. It describes the initiation of an action or process. It is often followed by an infinitive verb, indicating what was begun.
Inflection: Aorist, Middle Voice, Indicative Mood, First Person Singular
Strong’s number: G0756 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 13:10
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 20:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 20 — 12:259
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 10:1
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
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
- ἨΡΞΑΤΟ — began, 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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