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|txtha=μετάνω; [[future]] μετανοήσω; 1st aorist μετενόησα; from ([[Antiphon]]), [[Xenophon]] [[down]]; the Sept. [[several]] times for נִחַם; to [[change]] [[one]]'s [[mind]], i. e. to [[repent]] (to [[feel]] [[sorry]] [[that]] [[one]] has done [[this]] or [[that]], [[ἐπί]] τίνι added (the dative of the [[wrong]], [[Hebrew]] עַל, of (on [[account]] of) [[something]] (so Latin me paenitet alicujus rei), to [[repent]] (Latin paenitentiam agere): μετανοῶ ἐν σάκκῳ καί σποδῷ, clothed in sackcloth and besprinkled [[with]] [[ashes]], to [[change]] [[one]]'s [[mind]] for the [[better]], [[heartily]] to [[amend]] [[with]] [[abhorrence]] of [[one]]'s [[past]] sins: ἐξομολογούμενοι τάς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν; καρπούς ἀξίους τῆς μετανοίας, i. e. [[conduct]] [[worthy]] of a [[heart]] changed and abhorring [[sin]]); (μετανοεῖν [[εἰς]] τό [[κήρυγμα]] τίνος, [[εἰς]], B. II:2d.; (Winer's Grammar, 397 (371)). Since τό μετανοεῖν expresses [[mental]] [[direction]], the termini from [[which]] and to [[which]] [[may]] be specified: [[ἀπό]] τῆς κακίας, to [[withdraw]] or [[turn]] [[one]]'s [[soul]] from, etc. (cf. Winer's Grammar, 622 (577); [[especially]] Buttmann, 322 (277)), ἐκ τίνος, ἐκ, I:6; (cf. Buttmann, 327 (281), and Winer's Grammar, as [[above]])); μετανοεῖν καί ἐπιστρέφειν [[ἐπί]] [[τόν]] Θεόν, Winer's Grammar, 318 (298)), [[μεταμέλομαι]].)