μετάνοια
metánoia
“(subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication, reversal (of (another's) decision)”
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Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
(subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication, reversal (of (another's) decision)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
a change of mode of thought and feeling, repentance, Mt. 3:8; Acts 20:21; 2 Tim. 2:25; practical reformation, Lk. 15:7; reversal of the past, Heb. 12:17
Translated in KJV as
repentance
Etymology
from G3340 (μετανοέω);
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