- Transliteration: Arche

- Phonetic: ar-khay'

- Definition:

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

a. of the corners of a sail

5. the first place, principality, rule, magistracy

a. of angels and demons

- Origin: from G756" class="dictionary-topic-link">G756

- TDNT entry: 08:59,8

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From G756" class="dictionary-topic-link">G756; (properly abstract) a commencement or (concrete) chief (in various applications of order time place or rank): - beginning corner (at the the) first (estate) magistrate power principality principle rule.