'Beginning' in the Bible

But [when he] saw the strong wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"

And he answered [and] said, "Have you not read that the one who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female

He said to them, "Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this.

And [when] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.'

But all these [things] [are] the beginning of birth pains.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will happen.