'Start' in the Bible

and to go on to Macedonia with your help, then come to you again from Macedonia and be given a start by you on my journey to Judea.

So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,