Word Summary
metanoia: change of mind, repentance
Original Word: μετάνοιαTransliteration: metanoia
Phonetic Spelling: (met-an'-oy-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: change of mind, repentance
Meaning: change of mind, repentance
Strong's Concordance
repentance.
From metanoeo; (subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication, reversal (of (another's) decision) -- repentance.
see GREEK metanoeo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3341: μετάνοιαμετάνοια,
μετανοίας,
ἡ (
μετανοέω),
a change of mind: as it appears in one who repents of a purpose he has formed or of something he has done,
Hebrews 12:17 on which see
εὑρίσκω, 3 ((
Thucydides 3, 36, 3);
Polybius 4, 66, 7;
Plutarch, Peric c. 10; mor., p. 26 a.;
τῆς ἀδελφοκτονιας μετάνοια,
Josephus, Antiquities 13, 11, 3); especially the change of mind of those who have begun to abhor their errors and misdeeds, and have determined to enter upon a better course of life, so that it embraces both a recognition of sin and sorrow for it and hearty amendment, the tokens and effects of which are good deeds (
Lactantius, 6, 24, 6 would have it rendered in Latin by
resipiscentia) (
A. V. repentance):
Matthew 3:8, 11;
Luke 3:8, (16 Lachmann);
Luke 15:7;
Luke 24:47;
Acts 26:20;
βάπτισμα μετανοίας, a baptism binding its subjects to repentance (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2
β.),
Mark 1:4;
Luke 3:3;
Acts 13:24;
Acts 19:4; (
ἡ εἰς (
τόν)
Θεόν μετάνοια,
Acts 20:21, see
μετανοέω, at the end);
διδόναι τίνι μετάνοιαν, to give one the ability to repent, or to cause him to repent,
Acts 5:31;
Acts 11:18;
2 Timothy 2:25;
τινα εἰς μετάνοιαν καλεῖν,
Luke 5:32, and
Rec. in
Matthew 9:13;
Mark 2:17;
ἄγειν,
Romans 2:4 (
Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 10 at the end);
ἀνακαινίζειν,
Hebrews 6:6;
χωρῆσαι εἰς μετάνοιαν, to come to the point of repenting, or be brought to repentance,
2 Peter 3:9 (but see
χωρέω, 1 at the end);
μετάνοια ἀπό νεκρῶν ἔργων, that change of mind by which we turn from, desist from, etc.
Hebrews 6:1 (
Buttmann, 322 (277)); used merely of the improved spiritual state resulting from deep sorrow for sin,
2 Corinthians 7:9f (Sir. 44:16: Wis. 11:24 (23);
; Or. Man. f ((cf. the Sept. edition Tdf. Prolog., p. 112f)); Philo, qued det. pot. insid. § 26 at the beginning; Antoninus 8, 10; (Cebes, tab. 10 at the end).)