{"def":{"short":"(properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)","long":["beginning, origin","the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader","that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause","the extremity of a thing",["of the corners of a sail"],"the first place, principality, rule, magistracy",["of angels and demons"]]},"deriv":"from G0756","pronun":{"ipa":"ɑrˈxe","ipa_mod":"ɑrˈxe̞","sbl":"archē","dic":"ar-HAY","dic_mod":"ar-HAY"},"see":["G0756"]}