ἀρχῆς (arches)

ἀρχῆς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρχή, meaning “beginning; rule, office, command”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 2,985 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.35.4: … ροὺς ὄντας ἀπώσεσθε, τῶνδε δὲ οὐχ ὅπως κωλυταὶ ἐχθρῶν ὄντων καὶ ἐπιόντων γενήσεσθε, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ὑμετέρας ἀρχῆς δύναμιν προσλαβεῖν περιόψεσθε· ἣν οὐ δίκαιον, ἀλλ’ ἢ κἀκείνων κωλύειν τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ὑμετέρας μισθοφόρους ἢ καὶ …

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 12: … δημιουργός, εἴθʼ Ὁμήρου λέγοντος ἀκηκοώς ἠέλιος δʼ ἀπόρουσε λιπὼν, περικαλλέα λίμνην· εἴτʼ Αἰγυπτίους ἑωρακὼς ἀρχὴς ἀνατολῆς παιδίον νεγνὸν γράφοντας ἐπὶ λωτῷ καθεζόμενον γελάσας ἐγὼ ποῦ σὺ πάλιν εἶπον ὦ χρηστέ, τὴν Στοὰν δευ …

New Testament, 1 John 1.1: Ο ΗΝ ΑΠʼ ΑΡΧΗΣ, ὃ ἀκηκόαμεν, ὃ ἑωράκαμεν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἡμῶν, ὃ ἐθεασάμεθα καὶ αἱ χεῖρες ἡμῶν ἐψηλάφησαν, περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς,—

All forms of ἀρχή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.