'Beginning' in the Bible

But when he saw the wind, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me.

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

But all these things are the beginning of travail.

for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.