Beginning

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Beginning - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

BEGIN'NING, ppr. First entering upon; commencing; giving rise or original; taking rise or origin.

BEGIN'NING, n. The first cause; origin.

I am the beginning and the ending. Rev 1.

1. That which is first; the first state; commencement; entrance into being.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen 1.

3. The rudiments, first ground or materials.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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