Repent, Repentance (#3338,3340&3341 in strong's)
3338; metamelomai: to regret, repent; Original Word: μεταμέλομαι; Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: metamelomai; Phonetic Spelling: (met-am-el'-lom-ahee)
Short Definition: I change my mind, Definition: (lit: I change one care or interest for another), I change my mind (generally for the better), repent, regret.
3338 metaméllomai (from 3326 /metá, "change after being with," and 3199 /mélō, "care, be concerned with") – properly, to experience a change of concern after a change of emotion and usually implying to regret, i.e. falling into emotional remorse afterwards (note the force of 3326 /metá).
[3338 (metaméllomai) in the papyri (P Thead 51.15, iv/ad) also means "regret" and for example is used of a thief, "Otherwise you will have reason to be sorry for it"
3340; metanoeó: to change one's mind or purpose; Original Word: μετανοέω; Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: metanoeó; Phonetic Spelling: (met-an-o-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I repent, change my mind; Definition: I repent, change my mind, change the inner man (particularly with reference to acceptance of the will of God), repent.
3340 metanoéō (from 3326 /metá, "changed after being with" and 3539 /noiéō, "think") – properly, "think differently after," "after a change of mind"; to repent (literally, "think differently afterwards").
3341; metanoia: change of mind, repentance; Original Word: μετάνοια, ας, ἡ; Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: metanoia; Phonetic Spelling: (met-an'-oy-ah)
Short Definition: repentance, a change of mind, Definition: repentance, a change of mind, change in the inner man.
Cognate: 3341 metánoia – literally, "a change of mind" ("after-thought"); repentance. See 3340 /metanoeō ("repent").
3338; a total of 6;
Matthew 21:29 and answering, he said, I will not. But afterward, having regretted, he went.
Matthew 21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him. And having seen, you did not repent afterwards to believe him.
Matthew 27:3 Then Judas, the one betraying Him, seeing that He was condemned, repenting, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,
2 Corinthians 7:8 (2) for even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret, if indeed I did regret, for I see that letter grieved you for an hour.
Hebrews 7:21 for they truly becoming priests are without oath-taking, but He with oath-taking, through the One saying to Him, The Lord swore, and will not care to change, "You are a priest to the age according to the order of Melchizedek;" Psalm 110:4
3340; a total of 34;
Matthew 3:1&2 now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the deserted places of Judea, and saying, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.
Matthew 4:17 from that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.
Matthew 11:20&21 Then He began to reproach the cities in which most of His powerful acts had occurred, for they did not repent. Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the powerful acts which have taken place in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 12:41 Men, Ninevites, will stand up in the Judgment with this generation and will condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and, behold, a Greater-than-Jonah is here.
Mark 1:15 Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time has been fulfilled, and the kingdom of God draws near. Repent and believe in the gospel.
Mark 6:12 and going out, they proclaimed that men should repent.
Luke 10:13 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the works of power which have been occurring in you had occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago sitting in sackcloth and ashes!
Luke 11:32 Men, Ninevites will rise up in the Judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And, behold, a Greater-than-Jonah is here.
Luke 13:2-5 And answering, Jesus said to them, Do you think that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? No, I say to you, But if you do not repent, you will all perish likewise. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, do you think that these were sinners beyond all men who lived in Jerusalem? No, I say to you, But if you do not repent, you will all perish likewise.
Luke 15:7&10 I say to you that so is joy in Heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance. I say to you, So there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner repenting.
Luke 16:30 But he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go from the dead to them, they will repent.
Luke 17:3&4 Take heed to yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if seven times of the day he sins against you, and seven times of the day turns to you saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.
Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, each of you on the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:19 Therefore, repent, and convert, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the face of the Lord,
Acts 8:22 Repent, then, from this wickedness of yours, and petition God if perhaps you will be forgiven the thought of your heart.
Acts 17:30 truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,
Acts 26:20 but to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I proclaimed the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
2 Corinthians 12:21 that it not be, in my having come again my God may humble me with you, and I shall mourn many of those having previously sinned and not having repented over the uncleanness and fornication and lustful acts which they have practiced.
Revelation 2:5 then remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works. And if not, I am coming to you quickly, and will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Revelation 2:16 Repent! But if not, I will come to you quickly, and I will make war with them by the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:21 (2) &22 And I gave time to her that she might repent of her fornication. And she did not repent. Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and into great affliction those committing adultery with her, unless they repent of their works.
Revelation 3:3 then remember how you received and heard, and keep, and repent. If, then, you do not watch, I will come upon you like a thief and you will not at all know what hour I come upon you.
Revelation 3:19 I, as many "as I love, I rebuke and I chasten." Be zealous, then, and repent. Prov. 3:12
Revelation 9:20&21 And the rest of men, those not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they will not worship demons, and "golden idols, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols, which neither are able to see, nor to hear," nor to walk. (Dan. 5:23; Psa. 115:4 -7; 135:15-17) And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.
Revelation 16:9&11 and men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, the One having authority over these plagues and they did not repent to give Him glory. And they blasphemed the God of Heaven, from their pains and from their sores. And they did not repent of their works.
3341; a total of 22;
Matthew 3:8&11 therefore, bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. I indeed baptize you in water to repentance; but He who is coming after me is stronger than me, of whom I am not able to lift the sandals. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
Mark 1:4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
Luke 3:3&8 the Word of God came on John the son of Zacharias in the desert. And he came into the neighborhood of the Jordan proclaiming a baptism of repentance for remission of sins, then bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, we have Abraham as father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.
Luke 5:31&32 and answering, Jesus said to them, Those who are sound have no need of a healer, but those badly having illness. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 15:7 I say to you that so is joy in Heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.
Luke 24:47 and repentance and remission of sins must be preached on His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 5:31 This One God has exalted as a Ruler and Savior to His right hand, to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins.
Acts 11:18 and hearing these things, they kept silent and glorified God, saying, Then God also has granted to the nations repentance unto life.
Acts 13:24 John going before to proclaim before the face of His entrance a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Acts 19:4 And Paul said, John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe into the one coming after him, that is, into the Christ, Jesus.
Acts 20:21 earnestly testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 26:20 but to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I proclaimed the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
Romans 2:4 or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and the long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
2 Corinthians 7:9&10 Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, that you might suffer loss in nothing by us. For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted. But the grief of the world works death.
2 Timothy 2:25 in meekness teaching those who have opposed, if perhaps God may give them repentance for a full knowledge of the truth,
Hebrews 6:1&6 Because of this, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us be borne on to full growth, not laying down again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, and having fallen away, it is impossible for them again to renew to repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God, and putting Him to open shame.
Hebrews 12:16&17 that not any fornicator, or profane one, as Esau, who for one meal gave up his birthright; for you know also that afterwards desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, although seeking it out with tears. Gen. 27:36-39
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
Here you have the Greek word and its definition and every time that word is used in the New Testament. Enjoy the study! Scriptures taken from a literal translation; J.P.Green (KJ3)