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The paper discusses and systematically analyses the term μετάνοια (most commonly translated with the word repentance), and the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. The general introductory part of the article explores the etymological and semantic meaning of the term μετάνοια in the original Greek language and classical Greek literature, as well as a brief history of the translation of this term into modern languages. The second part of the paper deals with the Hebrew biblical concepts ≫naham≪ ( נחם ) and ≫šub≪ ( שׁוּב ), which are related to the term metanoia, with an overview of their translation into Greek (LXX) and other modern languages, while the third, last part analyses the use of the term μετάνοια/μετανοεῖν in the New Testament, with particular emphasis on Luke's two-volume work (Gospels and Acts), which mostly uses these terms.

Readers from the homilies of St. Jerome were translated from Latin into Church Slavonic, probably when the Church Slavonic version of the breviary was created in the mid-13th century, when Pope Innocent IV. approved the use of Slavic liturgy by the Benedictines in Senj and Krk. The authors of the Croatian-Glagolitic breviary used older Old-Church Slavonic translations of the biblical text, other texts – among them the homilies of St. Hieronymus – were translated straight from the Latin breviary, so we can trace in them the characteristic elements of actively used Croatian Church Slavonic. In this paper, we review the authenticity of the Jerome’s authorship of the texts in the breviary and show that some of the lexical elements of the translation of homilies are the same as those of the biblical texts in the Croatian text books of the southern textual group.