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Greek verb · G3328

μεταβάλλω

metaballomet-ab-al'-lo

to change mind

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: metabállō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3328is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3328

to throw over, i.e. (middle voice figuratively) to turn about in opinion

The King James renders it: change mind.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

metaballo is rendered "to change mind". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 28:6The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

The first use

The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

Acts 28:6μεταβαλόμενοι

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • having changed their opinion1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

μετάmetawith/afterUses461
μετανοέωmetanoeoto repentUses34
μετάνοιαmetanoiarepentanceUses22
μεταβαίνωmetabainoto departUses12
μεταξύmetaxybetween/meanwhileUses9
μεταπέμπωmetapempoto summonUses9
μεταλαμβάνωmetalambanoto partakeUses7
μετατίθημιmetatithemito transportUses6
μεταμέλλομαιmetamellomaito repentUses6
μεταδίδωμιmetadidomito shareUses5
μετασχηματίζωmetaschematizoto transformUses5
μετακαλέωmetakaleoto summonUses4

and 8 more on the stem.

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • μεταβαλόμενοι1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-2AMP-NPM

Acts

one use
  • The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

    Acts 28:6

    • μεταβαλόμενοιmetabalomenoiverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having changed their opinion

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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