'Beginning' in the Bible

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

But he answering said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them, from the beginning made them male and female,

He says to them, Moses, in view of your hardheartedness, allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not thus.

But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.

But all these are the beginning of throes.

for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be;