'Began' in the Bible

"Desecrate my Temple," he told them, "and fill its courtyard with the dead!" So they went out and began striking down people throughout the city.

"Now suppose that he produced a son who practiced all of his father's sins, but then that son began to fear me and stopped doing all of these things.

So I prophesied as I had been ordered, breath entered them, and they began to live. They stood on their own feet as a vast, united army.