'Begun' in the Bible

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

he hath begun to be a hero in the land; he hath been a hero in hunting before Jehovah; therefore it is said, 'As Nimrod the hero in hunting before Jehovah.'

The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

The Lord said to her,“[The founders of] two nations are in your womb;And the separation of two nations has begun in your body;The one people shall be stronger than the other;And the older shall serve the younger.”

and he searcheth -- at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed -- and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin;