Metamellomai means “care afterwards” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3338 — yatsur (“structure”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3338 μεταμέλλομαι (metamellomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. metamellomai (met-am-el'-lom-ai) v. 1. to care afterwards, i.e. regret [from G3326 and the middle voice of G3199] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include afterward, repent, and repented. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
metamellomai (met-am-el'-lom-ai) v. 1. to care afterwards, i.e. regret [from G3326 and the middle voice of G3199] KJV: repent (self) Root(s): G3326, G3199
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to repent
Usage: μετα-μέλομαι [in LXX chiefly for נָהַם: ni. ;] depon., pass., to regret, repent one: Mat.21:30, 32 27:3, 2Co.7:8, Heb.7:21" (LXX) † SYN.: μετανοέω, to change one's mind, repent. On the distinction, difficult to maintain by usage, between these words, see Thayer, see word; Tr., Syn., § lxix (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render metamellomai, 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.
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Strong's G3338 (μεταμέλλομαι) appears 14 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
10 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And when Pharaoh sent forth the people, God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, because it was near; for God said, Lest at any time the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.
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.
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice thee; withhold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
for I repent that I gave my daughter unto him, for he sought to slay me.
How that having given them leave to depart, And sent them hastily away, They would repent and pursue them.
Till he have rendered to every man according to his deeds, And to the works of men according to their devices; Till he have judged the cause of his people, And made them to rejoice in his mercy.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3338.
And when Pharaoh sent forth the people, God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, because it was near; for God said, Lest at any time the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.
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.
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice thee; withhold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And he remembered his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his mercy.
The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
And thou repent at last, When the flesh of thy body is consumed,
Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;
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 ye shall see their ways and their thoughts: and ye shall mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, even all the evils which I have brought upon it.
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.
He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
for I repent that I gave my daughter unto him, for he sought to slay me.
How that having given them leave to depart, And sent them hastily away, They would repent and pursue them.
Till he have rendered to every man according to his deeds, And to the works of men according to their devices; Till he have judged the cause of his people, And made them to rejoice in his mercy.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3338, grouped by book.
Metamellomai (Strong's G3338) is a Greek word most simply glossed "care afterwards". metamellomai (met-am-el'-lom-ai) v. 1. to care afterwards, i.e. regret [from G3326 and the middle voice of G3199]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G3338 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3338 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 afterward, repent, and repented. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 10 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3338, with linked reader references where each row is available.