Strong's Greek: 3338. μεταμέλομαι (metamelomai) -- to regret, repent

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Lexical Summary

metamelomai: to regret, repent

Original Word: μεταμέλομαι
Transliteration: metamelomai
Phonetic Spelling: (met-am-el'-lom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to regret, repent
Meaning: to regret, repent

Strong's Concordance

repent

From meta and the middle voice of melo; to care afterwards, i.e. Regret -- repent (self).

see GREEK meta

see GREEK melo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3338: μεταμέλομαι

μεταμέλομαι; imperfect μετεμελόμην; passive, 1 aorist μετεμελήθην; 1 future μεταμεληθήσομαι; (from μέλομαι, middle of μέλω); from Thucydides down; the Sept. for נִחַם; a deponent passive; properly, it is a care to one afterward (see μετά, III. 2), i. e. it repents one; to repent oneself (in R. V. uniformly with this reflexive rendering (except 2 Corinthians 7:8, where regret)): Matthew 21:29, 32; Matthew 27:3; 2 Corinthians 7:8; Hebrews 7:21 from Psalm 109:4 (). [SYNONYMS: μεταμέλομαι, μετανοέω: The distinctions so often laid down between these words, to the effect that the former expresses a merely emotional change the latter a change of choice, the former has reference to particulars the latter to the entire life, the former signifies nothing but regret even though amounting to remorse, the latter that reversal of moral purpose known as repentance — seem hardly to be sustained by usage. But that μετανοέω is the fuller and nobler term, expressive of moral action and issues, is indicated not only by its derivation, but by the greater frequency of its use, by the fact that it is often employed in the imperative (μεταμέλομαι never), and by its construction with ἀοπ, ἐκ (cf. ἡ εἰς Θεόν μετάνοια, Acts 20:21). Cf. Trench, N. T. Synonyms, § lxix.; especially Gataker, Adv. Post. xxix.]

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