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The term "begun" in the context of the Bible often relates to the initiation of God's creation, the commencement of significant events, or the start of divine plans and covenants. It is a word that signifies the unfolding of God's will and the beginning of His purposes in the world and in the lives of individuals.

Creation and the Beginning of Time

The concept of "begun" is foundational in the biblical narrative, starting with the creation account in Genesis. Genesis 1:1 states, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." This verse marks the commencement of time and the universe, initiated by God's sovereign act of creation. The beginning of creation is a testament to God's power and authority, setting the stage for the unfolding of His divine plan throughout history.

The Beginning of Covenants

Throughout the Bible, God initiates covenants with His people, marking new beginnings in His relationship with humanity. For instance, the covenant with Noah after the flood signifies a new start for creation, as God promises never to destroy the earth with a flood again (Genesis 9:11). Similarly, the covenant with Abraham marks the beginning of a chosen people through whom God would bless all nations (Genesis 12:1-3).

The Beginning of Israel as a Nation

The Exodus marks the beginning of Israel as a nation, liberated from Egyptian bondage. This event is a pivotal moment in biblical history, as God begins to fulfill His promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The giving of the Law at Mount Sinai further establishes Israel's identity and mission as God's chosen people (Exodus 19:5-6).

The Beginning of the Church

In the New Testament, the Day of Pentecost represents the beginning of the Church, as the Holy Spirit descends upon the apostles, empowering them to spread the Gospel (Acts 2:1-4). This event marks the start of a new era in God's redemptive plan, as the message of salvation through Jesus Christ begins to reach the ends of the earth.

Personal Beginnings in Christ

The concept of "begun" also applies to the personal transformation that occurs when an individual comes to faith in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17 declares, "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come!" This verse highlights the beginning of a new life in Christ, characterized by spiritual renewal and a fresh start in one's relationship with God.

The Beginning of the End Times

Biblical prophecy often speaks of the beginning of the end times, a period marked by significant events leading to the return of Christ. Jesus, in the Olivet Discourse, describes signs that will signal the beginning of the end, urging believers to remain vigilant and faithful (Matthew 24:4-8).

In summary, the concept of "begun" in the Bible is rich with theological significance, encompassing the creation of the world, the establishment of covenants, the formation of Israel, the birth of the Church, personal spiritual renewal, and the unfolding of eschatological events. Each beginning is a testament to God's sovereign will and His ongoing work in the world.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. p.) of Begin.

Greek

757. archo -- to rule, to begin
... verb Definition to rule, to begin NASB Word Usage began (62), begin (7), beginning
(8), begins (2), begun (1), proceed (1), rule (1), rulers (1), starting (2). ...
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1728. enarchomai -- to begin, to make a beginning
... commence. Word Origin from en and archo Definition to begin, to make a
beginning NASB Word Usage began (1), begun (1). to begin. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2490c. chalal -- to pollute, defile, profane
... root Definition to pollute, defile, profane NASB Word Usage became* (1), began
(30), begin (10), begin to use its fruit (2), beginning (3), begun (7), begun to ...
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Library

July 8. "Having Begun in the Spirit, are Ye Now Made Perfect by ...
... JULY 8. "Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh"
(Gal. iii. 3). "Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now ...
/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /july 8 having begun in.htm

But, as I had Begun to Say, Whether the Fruit an Hundred-Fold be ...
... Section 47. But, as I had begun to say, whether the fruit an hundred-fold
be virginity? 47. But, as I had begun to say, whether ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/of holy virginity /section 47 but as i.htm

City Road Chapel Begun
... Chapter 18. On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lorg George
Gordon City Road Chapel Begun. Monday, April 21, was ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/city road chapel begun.htm

Disputation Begun.
... Book II. Chapter XIX."Disputation Begun. And Niceta answered: "When he
perceived that we had found him out, having spoken to one ...
/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter xix disputation begun.htm

The Labour Ended, the Rest Begun
... CHAPTER LX THE LABOUR ENDED, THE REST BEGUN. To praise Him in the dance! ... Heaven now
for me " for ever Christ and heaven ". The endless Now begun ". ...
/.../bevan/three friends of god/chapter lx the labour ended.htm

But as we had Begun to Remark it is not Sufficient for a Christian ...
... The Doubtful Letters Of Sulpitius Severus. Chapter VII. But as we had
begun to remark it is not sufficient for a Christian to? ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter vii but as we.htm

"Having Begun in the Spirit"
... "HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT". ... Are ye so foolish?" And then comes my text""Having
begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/murray/absolute surrender/having begun in the spirit.htm

How those are to be Admonished who do not Even Begin Good Things ...
... How those are to be admonished who do not even begin good things, and those who
do not finish them when begun. (Admonition 35.) Differently ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter xxxiv how those are.htm

Psalm 85 Part 1 Waiting for an Answer to Prayer; Or, Deliverance ...
... THE PSALMS OF DAVID PSALM 85 PART 1 Waiting for an answer to prayer; or, Deliverance
begun and completed. v.1-8 LM. ... Thou hast begun to set us free,. ...
/.../watts/the psalms and hymns of isaac watts/psalm 85 part 1 waiting.htm

1869-1870. Emigration of Families --A visitor's Impressions --The ...
... Emigration of families"A visitor's impressions"The great life-work "Emigration
of the young, begun 1870"First party of boys to Canada with Miss ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/lowe/gods answers/chapter ii 1869-1870 emigration of.htm

Thesaurus

Begun (50 Occurrences)
...Begun (50 Occurrences). Matthew 12:26 And if Satan is expelling Satan, he has begun
to make war on himself: how therefore shall his kingdom last? (WEY). ...
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Relation (86 Occurrences)
... back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding from some previous
date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time ...
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Ethiopic
... Their migration must have begun many centuries BC It has hardly ever stopped, since
Arabs in smaller, and sometimes in larger, numbers have been drifting into ...
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Shrines (40 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 34:3 And in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath
begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he ...
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Slavonic
... and then later (11th century) revised from the Greek In 1910 a new edition, based
on two manuscripts dated respectively 913 and 995, was begun (Quattuor Ev. ...
/s/slavonic.htm - 13k

Georgian
... and then later (11th century) revised from the Greek In 1910 a new edition, based
on two manuscripts dated respectively 913 and 995, was begun (Quattuor Ev. ...
/g/georgian.htm - 13k

Gothic
... and then later (11th century) revised from the Greek In 1910 a new edition, based
on two manuscripts dated respectively 913 and 995, was begun (Quattuor Ev. ...
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Completed (109 Occurrences)
... Spain. (See RSV NIV). Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the
Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? (WEB). 2 Timothy ...
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Cleanse (75 Occurrences)
... God never "clears" where he has not begun to "cleanse," and never "cleanses" by
the Spirit without "clearing" through the blood. Philip Wendell Crannell. ...
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Sir (90 Occurrences)
... Matthew 14:30 but seeing the wind vehement, he was afraid, and having begun
to sink, he cried out, saying, 'Sir, save me.' (YLT). ...
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Begun (50 Occurrences)

Matthew 12:26
And if Satan is expelling Satan, he has begun to make war on himself: how therefore shall his kingdom last?
(WEY)

Matthew 14:30
but seeing the wind vehement, he was afraid, and having begun to sink, he cried out, saying, 'Sir, save me.'
(YLT)

Matthew 18:24
When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Matthew 20:8
And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.
(YLT)

Matthew 20:9
"When those came who had begun at five o'clock, they received a shilling apiece;
(WEY)

Luke 13:25
As soon as the Master of the house shall have risen and shut the door, and you have begun to stand outside and knock at the door and say, "'Sir, open the door for us' --"'I do not know you,' He answers; 'you are no friends of mine.'
(WEY)

Luke 15:32
But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"
(See NAS)

Luke 23:5
and they were the more urgent, saying -- 'He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'
(YLT)

Luke 24:27
And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
(DBY YLT)

John 8:9
and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
(YLT)

Acts 8:35
and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.
(YLT)

Acts 10:37
ye -- ye have known; -- the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;
(YLT)

Acts 11:4
And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying,
(YLT)

Acts 11:15
"And," said Peter, "no sooner had I begun to speak than the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He fell upon us at the first.
(WEY)

Acts 28:2
The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
(See RSV)

2 Corinthians 8:6
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
(KJV DBY WBS)

2 Corinthians 8:10
And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
(KJV WEY WBS)

Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
(KJV WEY DBY WBS)

1 Timothy 5:11
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
(KJV WBS)

Revelation 11:17
saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 6:1
And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
(YLT)

Genesis 10:9
he hath begun to be a hero in the land; he hath been a hero in hunting before Jehovah; therefore it is said, 'As Nimrod the hero 'in' hunting before Jehovah.'
(YLT)

Genesis 11:6
And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.
(DBY NIV)

Genesis 44:12
and he searcheth -- at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed -- and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin;
(YLT)

Numbers 16:46
Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 16:47
Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 1:5
beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, hath Moses begun to explain this law, saying:
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 2:31
Yahweh said to me, "Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 3:24
"Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV(

Deuteronomy 20:6
What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
(See NAS NIV)

Judges 20:39
the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite and kill about thirty men of Israel; they said, "Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle."
(DBY YLT RSV NIV)

Judges 20:40
and the volume hath begun to go up from the city -- a pillar of smoke -- and Benjamin turneth behind, and lo, gone up hath the perfection of the city toward the heavens.
(YLT)

1 Samuel 3:2
It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 14:35
And Saul buildeth an alter to Jehovah; with it he hath begun to build altars to Jehovah.
(YLT)

1 Samuel 22:15
Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."
(WEB JPS ASV YLT)

2 Kings 9:29
(And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab had Ahaziah begun to reign over Judah.)
(DBY)

2 Kings 10:32
In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off 'some' in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,
(YLT)

2 Kings 15:37
In those days hath Jehovah begun to send against Judah Rezin king of Amram and Pekah son of Remaliah.
(YLT)

1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab son of Zeruiah hath begun to number -- and hath not finished -- and there is for this wrath against Israel, and the number hath not gone up in the account of the Chronicles of king David.
(YLT NAS)

2 Chronicles 20:22
And at the time they have begun with singing and praise, Jehovah hath put ambushments against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who are coming in to Judah, and they are smitten,
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 31:7
in the third month they have begun to lay the foundation of the heaps, and in the seventh month they have finished.
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 31:21
and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 34:3
And in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he hath begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images.
(YLT)

Ezra 3:6
From the first day of the seventh month they have begun to cause burnt-offerings to ascend to Jehovah, and the temple of Jehovah hath not been founded,
(YLT)

Ezra 5:2
Then have Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, risen, and begun to build the house of God, that 'is' in Jerusalem, and with them are the prophets of God supporting them.
(YLT)

Nehemiah 4:7
And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,
(YLT)

Esther 6:13
Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Esther 9:23
The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Micah 6:13
And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.
(YLT RSV NIV)

Subtopics

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