Bible word study

Metanoia (Strong’s G3341): Meaning in the Bible

Metanoia (μετάνοια) is the Greek word numbered G3341 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as (subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication, reversal (of (another's) decision). In the King James Bible it is translated repentance..

• Original wordμετάνοια
• Transliterationmetánoia
• Pronunciationmet-an'-oy-ah
• Strong’s numberG3341
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G3340;

How the King James Bible translates it

And Christ

Jesus opened his public ministry with this word. It is not endless guilt but a change of mind that turns the whole direction of a life, and he tied it to good news, telling us to turn and believe the gospel.

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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