Bible word study

Metanoeo (Strong’s G3340): Meaning in the Bible

Metanoeo (μετανοέω) is the Greek word numbered G3340 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to think differently or afterwards, i.e. reconsider (morally, feel compunction). In the King James Bible it is translated repent..

• Original wordμετανοέω
• Transliterationmetanoéō
• Pronunciationmet-an-o-eh'-o
• Strong’s numberG3340
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G3326 and G3539;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Metanoeo appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Metanoeo (G3340) stands behind 37 English renderings in 32 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Revelation (12), Luke (10), Matthew (6).

How the King James Bible renders Metanoeo, by count

• repent11 of 37 (30 percent)
• repented7 of 37 (19 percent)
• that repenteth2 of 37 (5 percent)
• they2 of 37 (5 percent)
• they repented2 of 37 (5 percent)
• ye2 of 37 (5 percent)

Three places to read Metanoeo

• Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Luke 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
• 2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Metanoeo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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