metanoeō · change one's mind

What it means

metanoeō (μετανοέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “change one's mind”.

Turn around one's way of thinking, and with it one's way of living, to return to God. It is usually translated "repent".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To leave evil and turn to God from the heart.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• change their minds ×9
• Change your minds ×7
• change your mind ×6
• changed their minds ×6
• change her mind ×2
• who changes his mind ×2
• I change my mind ×1
• he changes his mind ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Mark×2
• Luke×9
• Acts×5
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×12

• Matthew 3:2

  and saying, “Change your minds, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

• Matthew 4:17

  From then on Jesus began to proclaim and to say, “Change your minds, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

• Matthew 11:20

  Then he began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been done, because they had not changed their minds.

• Matthew 11:21

  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

• Matthew 12:41

  The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they changed their minds at the proclamation of Jonah; and look, something greater than Jonah is here.

• Mark 1:15

  and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; change your minds and believe in the good news.”

• Mark 6:12

  And going out, they proclaimed that people should change their minds.

• Luke 10:13

  Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

• Luke 11:32

  The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they changed their minds at the proclamation of Jonah, and look, something greater than Jonah is here.

• Luke 13:3

  No, I tell you; but unless you change your minds, you will all likewise perish.

• Luke 13:5

  No, I tell you; but unless you change your minds, you will all perish in the same way.”

• Luke 15:7

  I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who changes his mind than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of a change of mind.

• Luke 15:10

  In the same way, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who changes his mind.”

• Luke 16:30

  But he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will change their minds.’

• Luke 17:3

  Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he changes his mind, forgive him.

• Luke 17:4

  And if seven times a day he sins against you and seven times turns back to you, saying, ‘I change my mind,’ you will forgive him.”

• Acts 2:38

  And Peter said to them, “Change your minds, and let each of you be immersed in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

• Acts 3:19

  So change your minds and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out,

• Acts 8:22

  So change your mind and turn from this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord if perhaps the intent of your heart will be forgiven you.

• Acts 17:30

  So God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all people everywhere to change their minds,

• Acts 26:20

  but to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the nations, I declared that they should change their minds and turn to God, doing works worthy of the change of mind.

• 2 Corinthians 12:21

  that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned before and have not changed their minds about the impurity and sexual immorality and debauchery that they practiced.

• Revelation 2:5

  Remember, then, from where you have fallen, and change your mind, and do the first works; otherwise, I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you change your mind.

• Revelation 2:16

  Change your mind, then; otherwise, I am coming to you soon, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

• Revelation 2:21

  And I gave her time to change her mind, and she does not want to change her mind from her sexual immorality.

• Revelation 2:22

  Look, I am throwing her onto a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they change their minds from her works.

• Revelation 3:3

  Remember, then, how you have received and heard, and keep it, and change your mind. If, then, you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come upon you.

• Revelation 3:19

  I rebuke and discipline all those whom I hold dear; be zealous, then, and change your mind.

• Revelation 9:20

  And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not even change their minds from the works of their hands, so as to stop worshiping the demons and the idols of gold and of silver and of bronze and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

• Revelation 9:21

  and they did not change their minds from their murders or from their sorceries or from their sexual immorality or from their thefts.

• Revelation 16:9

  And people were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues, and they did not change their minds to give him glory.

• Revelation 16:11

  and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and because of their sores, and they did not change their minds about their works.

And 2 more times.