'Beginning' in the Bible

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.