REPENT

v. regret one's past actions, rue past events, feel sorrow about past occurrences

In Biblical Hebrew, the idea of repentance is represented by two verbs: שוב shuv (to return) and נחם nicham (to feel sorrow). In the New Testament, the word translated as 'repentance' is the Greek word μετάνοια (metanoia), "after/behind one's mind", which is a compound word of the preposition 'meta' (after, with), and the verb 'noeo' (to perceive, to think, the result of perceiving or observing). In this compound word the preposition combines the two meanings of time and change, which may be denoted by 'after' and 'different'; so that the whole compound means: 'to think differently after'. Metanoia is therefore primarily an after-thought, different from the former thought; a change of mind accompanied by regret and change of conduct, "change of mind and heart", or, "change of consciousness". One of the key descriptions of repentance in the New Testament is the parable of the prodigal son found in the Gospel of Luke 15 beginning at verse 11.
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Verb
1. turn away from sin or do penitence
(synonym) atone
2. feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
(synonym) regret, rue
(hypernym) feel, experience
(derivation) repentance, penitence, penance

(v. t.)
To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
  

(v. t.)
To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
  

(v. t.)
To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
  

(v. i.)
To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
  

(v. i.)
To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
  

(v. i.)
To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
  

(a.)
Same as Reptant.
  

(a.)
Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
  

repent /ri'pent/
động từ ân hận, ăn năn, hối hậnto repent [of] one's sin: hối hận về tội lỗi của mìnhI have nothing to repent of: tôi không có gì phải ân hận cả
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