The Difference Between metanoia and shûwb
Both metanoia (Greek: μετάνοια, G3341) and shûwb (Hebrew: שׁוּב, H7725) address overlapping biblical themes — metanoia carrying the sense of "repentance" and shûwb conveying ") again". Each word is shaped by its own covenant and cultural context, yet together they illuminate how the Old and New Testaments speak with one voice on this theme.
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μετάνοια vs שׁוּב
metanoia and shûwb
μετάνοια
(subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication, reversal (of (another's) decision)
G3341
Exegetical Meaning
(subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication, reversal (of (another's) decision) | Etymology: from G3340 (μετανοέω); | KJV: repentance
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שׁוּב
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
H7725
Exegetical Meaning
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again | Etymology: a primitive root; | KJV: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) [idiom] again, (cause to) answer ([phrase] again), [idiom] in any case (wise), [idiom] at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, [idiom] certainly, come again (back), [idiom] consider, [phrase] continually, convert, deliver (again), [phrase] deny, draw back, fetch home again, [idiom] fro, get (oneself) (back) again, [idiom] give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, [idiom] needs, be past, [idiom] pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, [phrase] say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, [idiom] surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
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