Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to change mind
Usage: μετα-βάλλω [in LXX chiefly for הָפַךְ ;] to turn about, change. Pass. and mid., to turn oneself about; metaphorically, to change one's mind: Act.28:6.† (AS)
Metaballo means “change mind” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3328 — yitschar (“Jitschar”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3328 μεταβάλλω (metaballo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. metaballo (met-ab-al'-lo) v. 1. to throw over 2. (middle voice figuratively) to turn about in opinion It has 31 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include minds. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
metaballo (met-ab-al'-lo) v. 1. to throw over 2. (middle voice figuratively) to turn about in opinion [from G3326 and G906] KJV: change mind Root(s): G3326, G906
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to change mind
Usage: μετα-βάλλω [in LXX chiefly for הָפַךְ ;] to turn about, change. Pass. and mid., to turn oneself about; metaphorically, to change one's mind: Act.28:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render metaballo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3328 (μεταβάλλω) appears 30 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
These things saith the Lord: Hereby shalt thou know that I am the Lord: behold, I strike with the rod that is in my hand on the water which is in the river, and it shall change it into blood.
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron having lifted up his hand with his rod, smote the water in the river before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and changed all the water in the river into blood.
And the Lord brought in the opposite direction a strong wind from the sea, and took up the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And when they saw her, that her countenance was altered, and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very greatly, and said unto her,
they that led him changing the good will they bare him a little before into hatred, because the foresaid speeches proceeded, as they thought, from a desperate mind.
But Dositheus, called the son of Drimylus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
First 31 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3328.
These things saith the Lord: Hereby shalt thou know that I am the Lord: behold, I strike with the rod that is in my hand on the water which is in the river, and it shall change it into blood.
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron having lifted up his hand with his rod, smote the water in the river before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and changed all the water in the river into blood.
And the Lord brought in the opposite direction a strong wind from the sea, and took up the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.
And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if the hair in the spot be changed to white, and the appearance of the spot be below the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look upon it, and pronounce him unclean.
But if the spot be clear and white in the skin of his flesh, yet the appearance of it be not deep below the skin, and its hair have not changed itself for white hair, but it is dark, then the priest shall separate him that has the spot seven days;
But if the bright spot should have changed and spread in the skin, after the priest has seen him for the purpose of purifying him, then shall he appear the second time to the priest,
and the priest shall look, and, behold, if it is a white spot in the skin, and it has changed the hair to white, and there be some of the sound part of the quick flesh in the sore—
then the priest shall look, and, behold, the leprosy has covered all the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague, because it has changed all to white, it is clean.
But if the sound flesh be restored and changed to white, then shall he come to the priest;
and the priest shall see him, and, behold, if the plague is turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the patient clean: he is clean.
then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the appearance be beneath the skin, and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; because it is a leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.
then the priest shall look upon him, and, behold, if the hair being white is changed to a bright color, and its appearance is lower than the skin, it is a leprosy; it has broken out in the inflammation, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy.
And the priest shall look upon it after the plague has been washed; and if this, even the plague, has not changed its appearance, and the plague does not spread, it is unclean; it shall be burned with fire: it is fixed in the garment, in the warp, or in the woof.
And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy?
And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambuscade had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they turned and smote the men of Ai.
Thy hands have formed me and made me; Afterward thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; For again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
For thou shalt be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against thee; And many shall charge, and make supplication to thee.
The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom he set apart from Abraham, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change countenance.
Then shalt thou see, and fear, and be amazed in thy heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to thee, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to thee,
Then shall he change his spirit, and he shall pass through, and make an atonement, saying, This strength belongs to my god.
Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
And when they saw her, that her countenance was altered, and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very greatly, and said unto her,
they that led him changing the good will they bare him a little before into hatred, because the foresaid speeches proceeded, as they thought, from a desperate mind.
But Dositheus, called the son of Drimylus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:
At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.
For earthly things were turned into watery, And the things, that before swam in the water, now went upon the ground.
From the morning until the evening the time is changed, And all things are soon done before the Lord.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3328, grouped by book.
Metaballo (Strong's G3328) is a Greek word most simply glossed "change mind". metaballo (met-ab-al'-lo) v. 1. to throw over 2. (middle voice figuratively) to turn about in opinion
This page currently indexes 31 linked usages for Strong's G3328 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3328 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as minds. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3328, with linked reader references where each row is available.