'Beginning' in the Bible

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

Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

The beginning of wisdom is, Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.

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.

while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

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.