μεταμελέω
repent, regret
Where this word appears
Every passage where μεταμελέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 13:17 μεταμελέω And when Pharao sent forth the people, God led them not by the way of the land of the Phylistines, because it was near; for God said, Lest at any time the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:35 μεταμελέω And Samuel did not see Saul again till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned after Saul, and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
- Psalms 105:45 μεταμελέω And he remembered his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercy.
- Psalms 109:4 μεταμελέω The Lord swore, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.
- Proverbs 5:11 μεταμελέω And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,
- Proverbs 25:8 μεταμελέω Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest you repent at last.
- Ezekiel 14:22 μεταμελέω yet, behold, there shall be men left in it, the escaped thereof, who shall lead forth of it sons and daughters: behold, they shall go forth to you, and you⌃ shall see their ways and their thoughts: and you⌃ shall mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, even all the evils which I have brought upon it.
- Zechariah 11:5 μεταμελέω which their possessors have slain, and have not repented: and they that sold them said, Blessed be the Lord; for we have become rich: and their shepherds have suffered no sorrow for them.
About this word
About this word
μεταμελέω (metameléō), “repent, regret,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →