Strong’s definition
(properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)
KJV gloss list in the source
beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule
Derivation recorded by Strong
from G756 (ἄρχομαι);
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