What is your understanding of the use of the word “repented” in the Old Testament?

Question

Please no bashing and No Scriptures.
Thank you.

Answer 1

If you mean "repent" or a version of that word it is the Hebrew word "Nacham" and it mean "unhappy with what one has done", essentially.

It appears about a hundred times in the Old Testament

Answer 2

While many people see repentance as a 180 degree turnaround and being sorry for what they've done (which I don't deny), let's take it a step further.

Repentance, if you study the origin of the word, is meant to mean a paradigm shift, a change of mindset.

See, the reason you keep sinning a certain way is because your mind is conditioned to follow that path. To repent means acknowledging that God knows best and changing your mindset to fit that new truth you learned hereby breaking the old way in you.

Answer 3

Repented means to have changed ones mind and heart to the standard, or to God's standard of holy principles set forth in the old testament or to have turned away from ones lifestyle and actions that do not line up with God's will for his people.

Answer 4

John the Baptist and others urged their contemporaries to repent and produce works befitting repentance. Thus, it refers to a turning around and a removing oneself from the evil path, to go down the narrow road leading to salvation.

It narrowness comes from the difficulties it represents in pursuing a holy course and producing fruit befitting repentance.

So whether the OT or the NT -- without scriptures per request -- the repenting is a turning away from bad to good.

Answer 5

my understanding of repented in the old testament is that you confessed your sins and where forgiven to and by God. Also that you never did that sin again.

Answer 6

repent 1

re·pent [ri pént]
(past and past participle re·pent·ed, present participle re·pent·ing, 3rd person present singular re·pents)
transitive and intransitive verb
1. be sorry: to recognize the wrong in something you have done and be sorry about it
2. change ways: to feel regret about a sin or past actions and change your ways or habits


[13th century. < French repentir < pentir < Latin paenitere]


-re·pen·tance, noun
-re·pen·tant, adjective
-re·pent·er, noun
That is the meaning of repent and repented is the past tense.
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Answer 7

repent is the same as asking for God's forgiveness from sin

Answer 8

You turn 180 degrees and go the opposite direction.

Answer 9

H5162
נחם
nâcham
naw-kham'
A primitive root; properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): - comfort (self), ease [one’s self], repent (-er, -ing, self).

Answer 10

To ask for forgiveness and then turn away from your sin, in other words stop doing it.