KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense or past-participial form of begin (to have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence).
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 4:26
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¶ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother’s name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
¶ Iehoiachin was eighteene yeres old when he began to reigne, & he reigned in Ierusalem three moneths: & his mothers name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, of Ierusalem.
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Zedekiah was twentie and one yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Hamutal, the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.
¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
¶ And it came to passe in the seuen and thirtieth yeere of the captiuitie of Iehoiachin king of Iudah, in the twelfth moneth, on the seuen and twentieth day of the moneth, that Euilmerodach king of Babylon, in the yeere that he began to reigne, did lift vp the head of Iehoiachin king of Iudah out of prison.
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
And Cush begate Nimrod: hee began to be mightie vpon the earth.
1611 marginal noteGen. 10.8.
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel, neither was the number put in the account of the Chronicles of King Dauid.
1611 marginal noteHeb. ascended.
1611 marginal note1.Chron. 21.7. 2.sam. 24.5. &c.
THEN Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
¶ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Ierusalem in Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared vnto Dauid his father, in the place that Dauid had prepared in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.
1611 marginal noteOr, which was seene of Dauid his father.
1611 marginal noteOr, Araunah, 2.Sam. 24.18. 1.chr. 21.18.
1611 marginal note1.Kin. 6.1, &c.
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
And he began to build in the second day of the second moneth, in the fourth yeere of his reigne.
¶ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
¶ So king Rehoboam strengthened himselfe in Ierusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and fourty yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned seuenteen yeeres in Ierusalem, the citie which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse.
1611 marginal note1.King. 14.21.
NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
¶ Nowe in the eighteenth yeere of king Ieroboam, began Abiiah to reigne ouer Iudah.
1611 marginal note1.King. 15.1,&c.
¶ And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
¶ And when they beganne to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Iudah, and they were smitten.
1611 marginal noteHeb. and in the time that they, &c.
1611 marginal noteHeb. in singing and praise.
1611 marginal noteOr, they smote one another.
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