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The answer depends on the context that "beginning" appears in, for a couple of reasons. One, the Greek itself is context-dependent, and two, different (though related) Greek words are translated "beginning"in the New Testament. For instance:

Matthew 14:30 - But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"

In this verse, the Greek word is archomai (Strong #756), a verb form meaning "to be the first to do anything; to begin, to make a beginning; to be chief, leader, ruler." The thought conveyed is that he "started sinking." This word also appears in Matthew 20:8, where it has to do with an order of things, from first to last.

The more often-used word is arche (Strong #746), the noun form as found in verses such as Matthew 19:4 and 8, Matthew 24:21 and many others; perhaps most prominently in John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Arche means "1) beginning, origin; 2) the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader; 3) that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause; 4) the extremity of a thing; 5) the first place, principality, rule."

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Protos is the Greek word meaning 'first', and is the root for many English words such as 'prototype'.

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αρχή (arhi)

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