'Began' in the Bible

So I began weeping bitterly because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again, "Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain.

and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, "Who is like the great city?"