'Began' in the Bible

And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he began to call on the name of Yahweh.

And it happened [that], when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them.

And Noah began [to be] a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

And the seven years of famine began to come as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all of the countries, but in the land of Egypt there was food.