ἀρχή

Meaning:

Beginning

First

Elementary

Rulers, rule, domain

Noun, feminine (first declension)

Occurs 56 times in the New Testament, consistently conveying the idea of primacy - whether temporal (i.e. the start, e.g. ) or causal (i.e. the source) or governmental (i.e. the ruler, e.g. ).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἀρχή	ἀρχαί
Genitive	ἀρχῆς	ἀρχῶν
Dative	ἀρχῇ	ἀρχαῖς
Accusative	ἀρχήν	ἀρχάς
Vocative	ἀρχή)	ἀρχαί