metamellomai · feel regret

What it means

metamellomai (μεταμέλλομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “feel regret”.

Be sorry for what one has done and change one's view. Different from "change one's mind".

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 feel sorry about what one did or said, and then see it differently.

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

How it is translated

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

• regret it ×3
• felt regret ×1
• he regretted it ×1
• relent ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• 2 Corinthians×2
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 21:29

  And he answered and said, ‘I do not want to.’ But later he regretted it and went.

• Matthew 21:32

  For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and you, even when you saw it, did not even regret it afterward so as to believe him.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who had handed him over, seeing that he had been condemned, felt regret and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the high priests and elders,

• 2 Corinthians 7:8

  For even if I grieved you by the letter, I do not regret it; even if I did regret it —I see that that letter grieved you, even if only for a while—

• Hebrews 7:21

  but this one with an oath, through the one who said to him: The Lord has sworn and will not relent: You are a priest forever—

And 1 more times.