Lexical Summary metamelomai: to regret, repent Original Word: μεταμέλομαιTransliteration: 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: μεταμέλομαιμεταμέλομαι; 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 |