Strong G3698ὁπότε
when(-ever)
- Transliteration
- hopote
- Pronunciation
- hop-ot'-eh
- Morphology
- Greek Conjunction
Definition
Detailed definition
1. of Time, correlated to πότε, much like ὅτε:
2. with the indicative, when , Lat. quando, (Homer): —; εἰς ὁπότε, with future, when, by what time , λέγειν εἰς ὁπότ᾽ ἔσται (Aeschines Orator)
3. with the optative in reference to the past, whenever , to express an event that has often occurred, ὁπότε Κρήτηθεν ἵκοιτο (Iliad by Homer), etc.:—;also in oratio obliqua, (Sophocles Tragicus), etc.
4. in indirect phrases, ἴδμεν, ὁππότε Τηλέμαχος νεῖται when he is to return , (Odyssey by Homer); with optative, δέγμενος ὁππότε ναυσὶν ἐφορμηθεῖεν (Iliad by Homer)
5. in causal sense, for that, because, since , like Lat. quando for quoniam , (Theognis Elegiacus), etc.: so ὁπότε γε, Lat. quandoquidem, (Sophocles Tragicus) (ML)
2. with the indicative, when , Lat. quando, (Homer): —; εἰς ὁπότε, with future, when, by what time , λέγειν εἰς ὁπότ᾽ ἔσται (Aeschines Orator)
3. with the optative in reference to the past, whenever , to express an event that has often occurred, ὁπότε Κρήτηθεν ἵκοιτο (Iliad by Homer), etc.:—;also in oratio obliqua, (Sophocles Tragicus), etc.
4. in indirect phrases, ἴδμεν, ὁππότε Τηλέμαχος νεῖται when he is to return , (Odyssey by Homer); with optative, δέγμενος ὁππότε ναυσὶν ἐφορμηθεῖεν (Iliad by Homer)
5. in causal sense, for that, because, since , like Lat. quando for quoniam , (Theognis Elegiacus), etc.: so ὁπότε γε, Lat. quandoquidem, (Sophocles Tragicus) (ML)
In the Bible
Strong G3698 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- when1
First verses
- Luke 6:3And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὁπότε,
Epic dialect ὁππότε, both in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)]; Ionic dialect ὁκότε; Cyrenaic ὁπόκᾰ [Refs (“Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.164)]; in Doric dialect Poets ὁππόκᾰ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.98:)] adverb of Time, correlated to πότε, used much like{ὅτε}, except that the sense is less definite [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.3), though the two were frequently used without distinction:)]
I Relat., with the indicative, mostly with reference to the past, when, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.399, 3.173, etc.; the _indicative_ ἦστε is omitted, 8.230: in Class. _Attic dialect_ Prose only ὅτε is so used, when referring to a particular time, but later ὁπότε returns, as ὁπότε περιῆν)] when she was alive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“POxy.” 243.10 (1st c.AD))]: with the present in a simile, ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότε.. ποταμὸς πεδίονδε κάτεισι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.492)]: with subjunctive, like{ὁπόταν}, with reference to an indefinite number of occasions in the present or to the future, ὁππότ᾽ Ἀχαιοὶ Τρώων ἐκπέρσωσ᾽ εὖ ναιόμενον πτολίεθρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.163, compare 13.817, 21.112, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.170, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 782: sometimes in similes, ὡς ὁπότε νέφεα Ζέφυρος στυφελίξῃ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.305, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.335)]; but ὁπότ᾽ ἄν, Epic dialect ὁπότε or ὁππότε κεν, is more common with subjunctive, and in Attic dialect Prose ἄν must be used, see at {ὁπόταν}: Cyrenaic ὁπόκα κα δήληται [Refs (“Berl.Sitzb.” [prev. cited])]
I.2 with optative:
I.2.a to express an event that occurred often, ὁπότε Κρήτηθεν ἵκοιτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.233, compare 10.189, 15.284, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.591, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.99, 2.15, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 220a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.28.)]
I.2.b after a verb of waiting, of a time future relatively to the past, ἷζε.. δέγμενος ὁππότε ναῦφιν ἀφορμηθεῖεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.794, compare 4.334, 7.415, 9.191, 18.524.)]
I.2.c in indirect speech, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 824 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.20)]; in implied indirect speech, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.344 (of a past promise))]; ἀποδοτέον.. ὁ. μανεὶς ἀπαιτοῖ we were not [as you remember] to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 332a.)]
I.2.d where the principal clause has an optative, μηδ᾽ ἀντιάσειας ἐκείνῳ ὁππότε νοστήσειε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.148, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 396c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.3.)]
II in indirect questions, with indicative, ἦ ῥά τι ἴδμεν.. ὁππότε Τηλέμαχος νεῖτα; when he is to return, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.633; εἰς ὁ.)]by what time, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.99: rarely after a past tense, προσεδέρκετο, δέγμενος αἰεί, ὁππότε δὴ.. ἐφήσει (for ἐφείη, see above 1.2 b) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.386; εἰς σὲ βλέψαι καὶ τὸν ταμίαν ὁπότ᾽ ἄριστον παραθήσει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 613.)]
III ὁποτεοῦν at any time whatever, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1049a1.)]
B in causal sense, because, since, with indicative, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 749 (assuming variant), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.125, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 895c, etc.; also ὁπότε γε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1699 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.7.)]
Epic dialect ὁππότε, both in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)]; Ionic dialect ὁκότε; Cyrenaic ὁπόκᾰ [Refs (“Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.164)]; in Doric dialect Poets ὁππόκᾰ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.98:)] adverb of Time, correlated to πότε, used much like{ὅτε}, except that the sense is less definite [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.3), though the two were frequently used without distinction:)]
I Relat., with the indicative, mostly with reference to the past, when, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.399, 3.173, etc.; the _indicative_ ἦστε is omitted, 8.230: in Class. _Attic dialect_ Prose only ὅτε is so used, when referring to a particular time, but later ὁπότε returns, as ὁπότε περιῆν)] when she was alive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“POxy.” 243.10 (1st c.AD))]: with the present in a simile, ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότε.. ποταμὸς πεδίονδε κάτεισι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.492)]: with subjunctive, like{ὁπόταν}, with reference to an indefinite number of occasions in the present or to the future, ὁππότ᾽ Ἀχαιοὶ Τρώων ἐκπέρσωσ᾽ εὖ ναιόμενον πτολίεθρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.163, compare 13.817, 21.112, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.170, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 782: sometimes in similes, ὡς ὁπότε νέφεα Ζέφυρος στυφελίξῃ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.305, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.335)]; but ὁπότ᾽ ἄν, Epic dialect ὁπότε or ὁππότε κεν, is more common with subjunctive, and in Attic dialect Prose ἄν must be used, see at {ὁπόταν}: Cyrenaic ὁπόκα κα δήληται [Refs (“Berl.Sitzb.” [prev. cited])]
I.2 with optative:
I.2.a to express an event that occurred often, ὁπότε Κρήτηθεν ἵκοιτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.233, compare 10.189, 15.284, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.591, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.99, 2.15, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 220a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.28.)]
I.2.b after a verb of waiting, of a time future relatively to the past, ἷζε.. δέγμενος ὁππότε ναῦφιν ἀφορμηθεῖεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.794, compare 4.334, 7.415, 9.191, 18.524.)]
I.2.c in indirect speech, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 824 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.20)]; in implied indirect speech, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.344 (of a past promise))]; ἀποδοτέον.. ὁ. μανεὶς ἀπαιτοῖ we were not [as you remember] to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 332a.)]
I.2.d where the principal clause has an optative, μηδ᾽ ἀντιάσειας ἐκείνῳ ὁππότε νοστήσειε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.148, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 396c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.3.)]
II in indirect questions, with indicative, ἦ ῥά τι ἴδμεν.. ὁππότε Τηλέμαχος νεῖτα; when he is to return, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.633; εἰς ὁ.)]by what time, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.99: rarely after a past tense, προσεδέρκετο, δέγμενος αἰεί, ὁππότε δὴ.. ἐφήσει (for ἐφείη, see above 1.2 b) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.386; εἰς σὲ βλέψαι καὶ τὸν ταμίαν ὁπότ᾽ ἄριστον παραθήσει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 613.)]
III ὁποτεοῦν at any time whatever, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1049a1.)]
B in causal sense, because, since, with indicative, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 749 (assuming variant), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.125, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 895c, etc.; also ὁπότε γε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1699 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.7.)]