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Lexicon :: Strong's G536 - aparchē

Aa
ἀπαρχή
Transliteration
aparchē (Key)
Pronunciation
ap-ar-khay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a compound of ἀπό (G575) and ἄρχομαι (G756)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:484,81

Strong’s Definitions

ἀπαρχή aparchḗ, ap-ar-khay'; from a compound of G575 and G756; a beginning of sacrifice, i.e. the (Jewish) first-fruit (figuratively):—first-fruits.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G536 in the following manner: firstfruits (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G536 in the following manner: firstfruits (8x).

  1. to offer firstlings or firstfruits

  2. to take away the firstfruits of the productions of the earth which was offered to God. The first portion of the dough, from which sacred loaves were to be prepared. Hence term used of persons consecrated to God for all time.

  3. persons superior in excellence to others of the same class

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀπαρχή aparchḗ, ap-ar-khay'; from a compound of G575 and G756; a beginning of sacrifice, i.e. the (Jewish) first-fruit (figuratively):—first-fruits.
STRONGS G536:
ἀπαρχή, -ῆς, ἡ, (from ἀπάρχομαι:
a. to offer firstlings or first-fruits;
b. to take away the first-fruits; cf. ἀπό in ἀποδεκατόω), in Sept. generally equivalent to רֵאשִׁית; the first-fruits of the productions of the earth (both those in a natural state and those prepared for use by hand), which were offered to God; cf. Winers RWB under the word Erstlinge [BB. DD. under the word First-fruits]: ἡ ἀπαρχή namely, τοῦ φυράματος, the first portion of the dough, from which sacred loaves were to be prepared (Numbers 15:19-21), Romans 11:16.
Hence, in a transferred use, employed
a. of persons consecrated to God, leading the rest in time: ἀπ. τῆς Ἀχαΐας the first person in Achaia to enroll himself as a Christian, 1 Corinthians 16:15; with εἰς Χριστόν added, Romans 16:5; with a reference to the moral creation effected by Christianity all the Christians of that age are called ἀπαρχή τις (a kind of first-fruits) τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ κτισμάτων, James 1:18 (see Huther at the passage) [noteworthy is εἵλατο ὑμᾶς ὁ θεὸς ἀπαρχήν etc. as first-fruits] 2 Thessalonians 2:13 L Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading; Christ is called ἀπ. τῶν κεκοιμημένων as the first one recalled to life of them that have fallen asleep, 1 Corinthians 15:20, 23 (here the phrase seems also to signify that by his case the future resurrection of Christians is guaranteed; because the first-fruits forerun and are, as it were, a pledge and promise of the rest of the harvest).
b. of persons superior in excellence to others of the same class: so in Revelation 14:4 of a certain class of Christians sacred and dear to God and Christ beyond all others (Schol. ad Euripides, Or. 96 ἀπαρχὴ ἐλέγετο οὐ μόνον τὸ πρῶτον τῇ τάξει, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ πρῶτον τῇ τιμῇ).
c. οἱ ἔχοντες τὴν ἀπ. τοῦ πνεύματος who have the first-fruits (of future blessings) in the Spirit (τοῦ πν. is genitive of apposition), Romans 8:23; cf. what Winer § 59, 8 a. says in opposition to those [e. g. Meyer, but see Weiss in edition 6] who take τοῦ πν. as a partitive genitive, so that οἱ ἔχ. τ. ἀπ. τοῦ πν. are distinguished from the great multitude who will receive the Spirit subsequently. (In Greek writings from [Sophocles] Herodotus down.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
15:19; 15:20; 15:21
Romans
8:23; 11:16; 16:5
1 Corinthians
15:20; 15:23; 16:15
2 Thessalonians
2:13
James
1:18
Revelation
14:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G536 matches the Greek ἀπαρχή (aparchē),
which occurs 68 times in 57 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 22:29–Eze 48:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:29 - Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for me an offering: of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take my offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3 - And this is the offering which ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and brass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5 - Take ye from among you an offering unto Jehovah; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Jehovah’s offering: gold, and silver, and brass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - As an oblation of first-fruits ye shall offer them unto Jehovah: but they shall not come up for a sweet savor on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:12 - And if a priest’s daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8 - And Jehovah spake unto Aaron, And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, as a portion for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11 - And this is thine: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a portion for ever; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:12 - All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto Jehovah, to thee have I given them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:29 - Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of Jehovah, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave the best thereof from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32 - And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best thereof: and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29 - take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah’s heave-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:6 - and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of thy hand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:4 - The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before Jehovah thy God:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:21 -
And he provided the first part for himself,
For there was the lawgiver’s portion reserved;
And he came with the heads of the people;
He executed the righteousness of Jehovah,
And his ordinances with Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:4 - and they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread, which thou shalt receive of their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 -
Ye mountains of Gilboa,
Let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings:
For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away,
The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the oblations into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Jehovah hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12 - and they brought in the oblations and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully. And over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of Jehovah, and the most holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - and weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 -
And smote all the first-born in Egypt,
The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:36 -
He smote also all the first-born in their land,
The chief of all their strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1 - Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto Jehovah, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the border thereof round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6 - And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, side by side with the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - And whatsoever is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy oblation and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable unto one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16 - All the people of the land shall give unto this oblation for the prince in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:8 - And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the oblation which ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

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