conjunction
hote
Strong’sG3753
when
stem hote-102 times in the New Testamentin 18 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
ὅτε is a temporal particle meaning "when" 1234, used to mark the time at which something happens, equivalent to a relative phrase like "at the time when" 13. It can be followed by verbs in different tenses (imperfect, aorist, present, perfect, or future) depending on whether the event referred to is past, ongoing, completed, or definitely future 1. When used with a perfect-tense verb it can carry the sense "since" or "now that" 1. Strong's also lists related renderings such as "after (that)," "as soon as," "that," and "while" 2.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
ὅτε, temporal particle (correlat. of πότε, τότε),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3753 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also Refs 5th c.AD+ H., Doric dialect ὅκα, Aeolic dialect ὄτα (which see), Relat. adverb, formed from the Relat. stem ὁ- and τε (see. τε B), answering to demonstrative τότε and interrogative πότ; properly of Time, but sometimes passing into a causal sense (compare ὁπότε).
A of Time, when, at the time when,
A.I Constr.:
A.I.1 with indicative to denote single events or actions in past time, with imperfect or aorist, when, Refs 8th c.BC+pluperfect, Refs 5th c.BC+; whither are gone the boasts, [which we made] when we said.. ? Refs 8th c.BC+; rememberest thou not [the time] when.. ? Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄκουσα εὐχομένης ὅτ᾽ ἔφησθα.. Refs 8th c.BC+
A.I.1.b with present, of a thing always happening or now going on,Refs 8th c.BC+
A.I.1.c rarely with future, of a definite future, Refs 8th c.BC+
A.I.2 with optative, to denote repeated events or actions in past time, ἔνθα πάρος κοιμᾶθ᾽, ὅ. μιν γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἱκάνοι whenever, as often as, Refs 8th c.BC+
A.I.2.b sometimes of future events which are represented as uncertain, in clauses dependent on a Verb in the optative or subjunctive, οὐκ ἄν τοι χραίσμῃ κίθαρις.., ὅτ᾽ ἐν κονίῃσι μιγείης Refs 4th c.BC+
A.I.2.c ὅ. μή, in early authors always with optative, for εἰ μή, unless, except, save when, Refs 8th c.BC+subjunctive, Refs
A.I.3 with subjunctive, only in Epic dialect and Lyric poetry, Refs 8th c.BC+
A.II Special usages:
A.II.1 in Refs 8th c.BC+ as when, mostly with subjunctive, Refs 8th c.BC+: the Verb must frequently be supplied from the context, as in Refs
A.II.2 in the Epic dialect phrase πρίν γ᾽ ὅτε δή.., ἤ is omitted before ὅτε, Refs 8th c.BC+
A.III ὅτε with other Particles,
A.III.1 ὅτ᾽ ἄν, ὅτε κεν, see at {ὅταν}.
A.III.2 ὅτε δή and ὅτε δή ῥα, stronger than ὅτε, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+; see infr. IV. I; so ὅτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ Refs 8th c.BC+
A.III.3 ὅτε τε (where τε is otiose, see τε Refs 5th c.BC+
A.III.4 ὅτε περ even when, Refs 8th c.BC+
A.IV the proper correlative adverb is τότε, as ὅ. δὴ.., τότε δὴRefs; ὅ. δὴ.., καὶ τότε δὴRefs; also νῦν.., ὅ... Refs 5th c.BC+; μεθύστερον, ὅ... Refs; ἤματι τῷ, ὅ... Refs 8th c.BC+; so in Attic dialect, ἦν ποτε χρόνος, ὅ... Refs 5th c.BC+
A.IV.2 elliptical in the phrase ἔστιν ὅ. or ἔσθ᾽ ὅ., there are times when, sometimes, now and then, ἔστι ὅ. Refs; ἔστιν ὅ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔσθ᾽ ὅ. Refs 5th c.BC+
B ὅτε sometimes has a causal sense, when, seeing that, mostly with present indicative, Refs 8th c.BC+; and in Trag. and Attic dialect Prose, as Refs 5th c.BC+: with perfect used as present, Refs 5th c.BC+
B.2 sometimes where ὥστε would be more usual, οὕτω.. πόρρω κλέος ἥκει, ὅ. καὶ βασιλεὺς ἠρώτησεν Refs
C ὁτέ Indef. adverb, sometimes, now and then, used like{ποτέ} at the beginning of each of two corresponding clauses, now.., now.., sometimes.., sometimes.. (not in early Prose, ὁτὲ μὲν.., ὁτὲ δὲ.. Refs 8th c.BC+; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ὁτὲ δ᾽ αὖτε.. Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὁτὲ μέν τε.., ὅτ᾽ αὖ.. Refs; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ποτὲ δὲ.. Refs 2nd c.BC+; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ὁτὲ δὲ.., καὶ ἄλλοτε.. Refs 3rd c.AD+; ὁτὲ μὲν.., πάλιν δὲ.. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐνίοτε μὲν.., ὁτὲ δὲ.. Refs; ὁτὲ μὲν.., ἢ.. Refs 8th c.BC+; also ὁτὲ δέ in the second clause, without any correlative in the first,Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁτὲ δέ alone, at the beginning of a clause, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
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Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
102 occurrences, 100 of them printed here — the rest are in the reader
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Matthew 7:28Kai geneta hote telata tos Iēsus toin logoin houtoin, …When Jesus had finished saying these things …
Matthew 9:25“when”hote de ekbalita tos ochlos, eisercharantos kratata …After the crowd had been put outside, Jesus went in and took the girl …
Matthew 11:1“when”Kai geneta hote telata tos Iēsus diatassarōntos toi dōdeka …After Jesus had finished instructing His twelve disciples, He …
Matthew 12:3… autoi; Ouk anagnōskava tinem poiata David hote peinata kai tois meta autou?… you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
Matthew 13:26hote de blastata tos chortos kai karpon …When the wheat sprouted and bore grain …
Matthew 13:48han hote plērita anabibazarantois epi ton aigialon kai …When it was full, the men pulled …
Matthew 13:53kai geneta hote telata tos Iēsus tain parabolain houtain, …When Jesus had finished these parables, He …
Matthew 19:1Kai geneta hote telata tos Iēsus toin logoin houtoin, …When Jesus had finished saying these things …
Matthew 21:1“when”Kai hote engizala eis Hierosolumeim kai erchala eis …… they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on …
Matthew 21:34hote de engizata tos kairos toiu karpoiu, …When the harvest time drew near, he …
Matthew 26:1Kai geneta hote telata tos Iēsus pantoin toin logoin …When Jesus had finished saying all these …
Matthew 27:31kai hote empaizala auto, ekduala auton tan chlamudan …After they had mocked Him, they removed …
Mark 2:25… autoi; Oudepote anagnōskava tinem poiata David hote chreian echata kai peinata autos kai …… you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry …
Mark 4:6kai hote anatellata tos hēlios kaumatizita kai dia …But when the sun rose, the seedlings were …
Mark 4:10“when”Kai hote geneta kata monain, erōtale auton tois …… as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about …
Mark 7:17“when”Kai hote eiserchata eis oikon apo tou ochlou, …… left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples …
Mark 8:19hote toin pente artoin klama eis toin …When I broke the five loaves for …
Mark 8:20hote kai toin hepta eis toin tetrakischilioi, …“And when I broke the seven loaves for …
Mark 11:1“when”Kai hote engizalō eis Hierosolumeim eis Bēthfagē kai …As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at …
Mark 15:20“when”kai hote empaizala auto, ekduala auton tan porfuran …… they had mocked Him, they removed the purple robe and put His own clothes back on Him. Then they …
Mark 15:41“when”hais hote ate en ta Galilaia akolouthale auto …… women had followed Jesus and ministered to Him while He was in Galilee, and there were many other women who had come …
Luke 2:21Kai hote pimplēila hēmerais oktō teu peritemara auton, …When the eight days before His circumcision …
Luke 2:22Kai hote pimplēila tais hēmerais tou katharismou autoiu …And when the time of purification according to …
Luke 2:42kai hote geneta eteiu dōdeka, anabainarōntoiu autoiu kata …And when He was twelve years old, they …
Luke 6:13kai hote geneta hēmeras, prosfōnata toin mathētoin autou, …When daylight came, He called His disciples …
Luke 13:35“when”… ouk mē horaveia min heōs hēkati hote legaveia; Eulogorēntos tos erchorōntos en onome …… will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the …
Luke 15:30hote de tos huios su houtos tos …But when this son of yours returns from …
Luke 22:14Kai hote geneta tas hōras, anapiptata kai tois …When the hour had come, Jesus reclined …
Luke 23:33kai hote erchala epi ton topon ton kalorōnton …When they came to the place called …
John 1:19… houtas atō tas marturias tou Iōannou hote apostelala tois Ioudaiois ek Hierosolumeiu hierevoin …And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests …
John 2:22“when”hote oun egerita ek nekroiu, mimnēskila tois …… He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He …
John 4:45hote oun erchata eis tan Galilaian, dechela …Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him …
John 6:24hote oun horata tos ochlos hoti Iēsus …So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus …
John 12:16“when”… autou tois mathētois tem prōtem, alla hote doxazita Iēsus tote mimnēskila hoti houteim …At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things …
John 12:17… tos ochlos tos arōntos meta autou hote ton Lazaron fōnata ek teu mnēmeieu …… people who had been with Jesus when He called Lazarus from the tomb …
John 17:12hote ome meta autoiu mis tērame autoin …While I was with them, I protected …
John 19:6“when”hote oun horala auton tois archierevois kai …… soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted …
John 19:23tois oun stratiōtois hote staurala ton Iēsun labala teim himatieim …When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they …
John 19:30hote oun labata tem oxem tos Iēsus …When Jesus had received the sour wine …
John 20:24… legorōntos Didumos, ouk ate meta autoiu hote erchata Iēsus.… Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
John 21:18amēn amēn legamō si, hote ase neoteros, zōnase siauton kai peripatase …Truly, truly, I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself …
Acts 1:13kai hote eiserchala, eis tem huperōem anabainala hou …When they arrived, they went to the …
Acts 8:12hote de pisteuala to Filippo euangelizorōnto peri …But when they believed Philip as he preached …
Acts 8:39hote de anabainala ek teu hudeu, pneumem …When they came up out of the …
Acts 11:2hote de anabainata Petros eis Ierousalēm, diakrinole …So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the …
Acts 21:5hote de geneta exartizara nin tain hēmerain, …But when our time there had ended, we …
Acts 21:35hote de geneta epi toin anabathmoin, sumbainata …When Paul reached the steps, he had …
Acts 22:20kai hote ekchote tem haimem Stefanou tou marturou …And when the blood of Your witness Stephen …
Romans 7:5hote gar ane en ta sarka, teim …For when we lived according to the flesh …
Romans 13:11… gar enguteron nu tas sōtērēas ē hote pisteuana.… our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 12:2oidavē hoti hote ethneim ave pros teim eidōleim teim …You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced …
1 Corinthians 13:11hote ome nēpios, lalame hōs nēpios, froname …When I was a child, I talked …
1 Corinthians 13:11… froname hōs nēpios, logizome hōs nēpios; hote genamē andros, katargamē teim tou nēpiou.… child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set …
Galatians 1:15hote de eudokata tos aforizarantos min ek …But when God, who set me apart from …
Galatians 2:12… apo Iakōbou meta teiu ethneiu sunesthiate; hote de erchala, hupostelate kai aforizate heauton, …… to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw …
Galatians 2:14alla hote horama hoti ouk orthopodalō pros tan …When I saw that they were not …
Galatians 4:3houtōs kai nis, hote ane nēpiois, hupo teim stoicheieim tou …So also, when we were children, we were enslaved …
Galatians 4:4hote de erchata tem plērōmem tou chronou, …But when the time had fully come, God …
1 Thessalonians 3:4kai gar hote pros vin ane, prolegane vi hoti …Indeed, when we were with you, we kept …
2 Thessalonians 3:10“when”kai gar hote ane pros vin, houtem parangelane vi, …For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If …
Titus 3:4hote de tas chrēstotas kai tas filanthrōpias …But when the kindness of God our Savior …
Hebrews 7:10… en ta osfua tou patrou ate hote sunantata auto Melchisedek.For when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still …
Hebrews 9:17… epi nekroi bebaias, epei mēpote ischuatō hote zōatō tos diatitherantos.… has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.
1 Peter 3:20apeitharantoi pote hote apekdechote tas tou theou makrothumias en …who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days …
Jude 1:9tos de Michaēl tos archangelos, hote to diabolo diakrinorōntos dialegote peri teu …But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over …
Revelation 1:17Kai hote horama auton, piptama pros toin podoin …When I saw Him, I fell at …
Revelation 5:8kai hote labata tem bibliem, teim tessares zōeim …When He had taken the scroll, the …
Revelation 6:1“when”Kai horama hote anoigata tem arniem henan ek taiu …Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals …
Revelation 6:3Kai hote anoigata tan sfragidan tan deuteran, akouama …And when the Lamb opened the second seal …
Revelation 6:5Kai hote anoigata tan sfragidan tan tritan, akouama …And when the Lamb opened the third seal …
Revelation 6:7Kai hote anoigata tan sfragidan tan tetartan, akouama …And when the Lamb opened the fourth seal …
Revelation 6:9Kai hote anoigata tan pemptan sfragidan, horama hupokatō …And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal …
Revelation 6:12“when”Kai horama hote anoigata tan sfragidan tan hektan, kai …… the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was …
Revelation 10:3… fōna mega hōsper leontos mukotō. kai hote krazata, lalala tais hepta brontais tain …… the roar of a lion. And when he cried out, the seven thunders …
Revelation 10:4kai hote lalala tais hepta brontais, mellame grafarō; …When the seven thunders had spoken, I …
Revelation 10:10… stome mu hōs melitem glukuem; kai hote esthiama autem, pikranita tas koilias mu.… as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach …
Mark 1:32Opsēau de generantau, hote dusata tos hēlios, ferale pros auton …That evening, after sunset, people brought to Jesus all …
Mark 6:21“when”Kai generantau hēmerau eukairau hote Hērōdos tei genesiei autou deipnem poiata …On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his …
Mark 14:12Kai ta prōta hēmera teiu azumeiu, hote tem pascha thuale, legalō auto tois …… of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be …
Luke 4:25… tai hēmerai Ēliaou en to Israēl, hote kleiita tos ouranos epi eteim treis …… Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three …
Luke 17:22… de pros toin mathētoin; Ercheli hēmerais hote epithumavi henan taiu hēmeraiu tou huiou …… the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one …
John 4:21… Pisteuasōr mi, gunaikar, hoti erchotō hōras hote oute en te ore houte oute …… Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither …
John 4:23alla erchotō hōras kai nun atō, hote tois alēthinois proskunētois proskunali to patro …… is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the …
John 5:25… hoti erchotō hōras kai nun atō hote tois nekrois akouali tau fōnau tou …… is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice …
John 9:4… min heōs hēmeras atō; erchotō nuktas hote oudenos dunotō ergazorō.… who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
John 16:25… en paroimiai lalamē vi; erchotō hōras hote ouketi en paroimiai lalami vi alla …… of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to …
Romans 2:16en hēmera hote krinatō tos theos teim krupteim toiu …on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through …
Philippians 4:15… Filippēsioir, hoti en archa teu euangelieu, hote exerchama apo Makedoniau, oudenas mi ekklēsas …… the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but …
Colossians 3:7en hei kai vis peripatava pote hote zōave en houtei;When you lived among them, you also …
2 Timothy 4:3eti gar kairos hote tau hugiainarōntau didaskaliau ouk anecheli, alla …For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine …
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Luke 22:35Kai legata autoi; Hote apostelama vin ater ballantieu kai pērau …Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse …
John 13:12Hote oun niptata toin podoin autoiu kai …When Jesus had washed their feet and …
John 13:31Hote oun exerchata legatō Iēsus; Nun doxazita …When Judas had gone out, Jesus said …
John 19:8Hote oun akouata tos Pilatos houton ton …When Pilate heard this statement, he was …
John 21:15Hote oun aristala legatō to Simōno Petro …When they had finished eating, Jesus asked …
Acts 12:6“when”Hote de mellate proagara auton tos Hērōdos, …… night before Herod was to bring him to trial …
Acts 27:39Hote de hēmeras geneta, tan gēan ouk …When daylight came, they did not recognize …
Acts 28:16Hote de eiserchana eis Rōman, epitrepita to …When we arrived in Rome, Paul was …
Romans 6:20Hote gar doulois ave tau hamartau, eleutherois …For when you were slaves to sin, you …
Galatians 2:11Hote de erchata Kēfos eis Antiocheian, kata …When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I …