Quick Definition
ὅταν Cj. when, whensoever
Strong's Definition
from 3753 and 302; whenever (implying hypothesis or more or less uncertainty); also causatively (conjunctionally) inasmuch as
KJV Usage: as long (soon) as, that, + till, when(-soever), while
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
conj. | ὅς + ἄν
67.31 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After
whenever, when an indefinite point or points of time, which may be roughly simultaneous to or overlap with another point of time (ὅταν[a] and ἐπάν may also imply some degree of uncertainty)
MAT 5:11 · MAT 6:2 · MAT 6:5 · MAT 6:6 · MAT 6:16 · MAT 10:19 · MAT 10:23 · MAT 13:32 · MAT 15:2 · MAT 23:15 · MAT 24:15 · MRK 4:31 · MRK 11:25 · MRK 13:11 · MRK 13:28 · MRK 14:7 · LUK 6:22 · LUK 6:22 · LUK 6:26 · LUK 11:2 · LUK 12:11 · LUK 12:54 · LUK 12:55 · LUK 14:8 · LUK 14:12 · LUK 14:13 · LUK 21:30 · JHN 7:27 · JHN 7:31 · JHN 16:13 · ACT 24:22 · ROM 2:14 · 1CO 3:4 · 1CO 14:26 · 1CO 16:12 · 2CO 10:6 · 2CO 12:10 · COL 4:16 · 1JN 5:2
67.30 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After
when a point of time which is roughly simultaneous to or overlaps with another point of time
67.36 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After
whenever, as often as indefinite and multiple points of time, simultaneous with other corresponding points of time
67.139 · Time · Duration of Time with Reference to Some Unit of Time: During, In, While, Throughout
as long as, while an extent of time of the same length as another extent or unit of time
1 REV 8:1 It is possible that ὅταν occurs in REV 8:1 because of the prophetic nature of the context, so that in reality, though the verb is in the past tense, the reference is ultimately to a future event which is indefinite in time. If this is the case, then ὅταν[b] may simply be classified with ὅταν[a] (67.31).
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὅταν, a particle of time, comp. of ὅτε and ἄν, at the time that, whenever, (Germ. dann wann; wann irgend); used of things which one assumes will really occur, but the time of whose occurrence he does not definitely fix (in prof. auth. often also of things which one assumes ean occur, but whether they really will or not he does not know; hence like our in case that, as in Plato, Prot. p- 360 b.; Phaedr. p. 256 e.; Phaedo p. 68 d.); [ef. W. § 42,5; B. ὃ 139, 33]; a. with the subjunctive present: Mt. vi. 2,5; x. 23; Mk. xiii. 11 [here Ree. aor.]; xiv. 7; Lk. xi. 36; xii. 11; xiv. 12sq.; xxi. 7; dn. vil. 27; xvi. 21; Acts xxiii. 35; 1 Co. 1.4; 2 Co. xiii. 9; 1 Jn. v. 2; Rev. x. 7; xviii. 9; preceded by a specification of time: ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης, ὅταν etc., Mt. xxvi. 29; Mk. xiv. 25; foll. by τότε, 1 Th. ν. 3; 1 Co. xv. 28; i. q. as often as, of customary action, Mt. xv. 2; Jn. viii. 44; Ro. ii. 14; αἱ the time when i. q. as long as, Lk. xi. 345 Jn: ix. 5; b. with the subjunctive aorist: i. 4. the Lat. quando acciderit, ut w. subjunc. pres., Mt. v. 11; xii. 43; xiii. 32; xxiii. 15; xxiv. 32; Mk. iv. 15 sq. 29 [R G], 31 sq.; xiii. 28; Lk. vi. 22, 26; Vili. 13; xi. 24; xii. 54 sq.; xxi. 30; Jn. ii. 10; x. 4; xvi. 21; 1 Tim. v. 11 [here Lmmrg. fut.]; Rev. ix. 5. i. q quando w. fut. pf., Mt. xix. 28; xxi. 40; Mk. viii. 38; ix. 9; xii. 23 [ Tr WH om. Lbr. the cl.], 25; Lk. ix. 26; xvi.4,9; xvil. 10; Jn. iv. 25; vii. 31; xiii. 19; xiv. 29; xv. 26; xvi. 4, 13, 21; xxi.18; Acts xxiii. 35; xxiv. 22; Ro. xi. 27; 1 Co. xv. 24 [here LT Tr WH pres. ], 27 (where the meaning is, ‘when he shall have said that the ὑπόταξις predicted in the Psalm is now accomplished’; cf. Meyer ad loc.); xvi. 2 sq. 5, 12; 2Co.x. 6; Col. iv. 16; 1Jn.ii. 283[LTTr WH ἐάν; 2 Th.i. 10; Heb. i. 6 (on which see εἰσάγω, 1); Rev. xi. 7; xii. 4; xvii. 10; xx. 7. foll. by τότε, Mt. ix. 15; xxiv. 15; xxv. 81; Mk. ii. 20; xiii. 14; Lk. v.35; xxi. 20; Jn. viii. 28; 1 Co. xiii. 10 [G LT Tr WH om. τότε]; xv. 28, 54; Col. iii. 4. c. Acc. to the usage of later authors, a usage, however, not altogether unknown to the more elegant writers (W. 309 (289 sq.); B. 222 (192) sq.; [Tdf. Proleg. p. 124 sq.; WH. App. p.171; for exx. additional to these given by W. and B. τι. s. see Soph. Lex. s. v.; ef. Jebb in Vincent and Dickson’s Hdbk. to Mod. Grk., App. § 78]), with the indicative; a. future: when,{Mt. v.11 Tdf.]; Lk. xiii. 28 T Tr txt. WH mrg.; [1 Tim. v. 11 L mrg.]; as often as, Rev. iv. 9 (cf. Bleek ad loc.). B. present: Mk. xi. 25 LT Tr WH; xiii. 7 Trtxt.; [Lk. xi. 2 Trmrg.]. y- very rarely indeed, with the imperfect: as often as, [whensoever], ὅταν ἐθεώρουν, Mk. iii. 11 (Gen. xxxviii. 9; Ex. xvii. 11; 1S. xvii. 34; see ay, II. 1). δ. As in Byz“ οτι antine auth. i. q. ὅτε, when, with the indic. aorist: ὅταν ἤνοιξεν, Rev. viii. 1 LT Tr WH; [add ὅταν ὀψὲ ἐγένετο, Mk. xi. 19 T Tr txt. WH, cf. B. 223 (193); but al. take this of customary action, whenever evening came (i. 6. every evening, KX. V.)]. ὅταν does not occur in the Epp. of Peter and Jude.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὅταν hotan 123x
when, whenever, Mt. 5:11; 6:2; Mk. 3:11; Rev. 4:9, et al. freq.; in NT in case of, on occasion of, Jn. 9:5; 1 Cor. 15:27; Heb. 1:6
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὅταν (for ὅτ’ ἄν = ὅτε ἄν), temporal particle, with a conditional sense, usually of things expected to occur in an indefinite future; prop., whenever; c. subjc. praes.: Mt 6:2, 5, Mk 14:7, Lk 11:36, Jo 7:27, Ac 23:35, I Co 3:4, al.; ἕως τ. ἡμέρας ἐκείνης, ὅ., Mt 26:29, Mk 14:25; seq. τότε, I Th 5:3;
c. subjc. aor. (M, Pr., 185): Mt 5:11, Mk 4:15, Lk 6:22, Jo 2:10 8:28 (Field, Notes, 94), 10:4, al.
As in Hom. (LS, s.v.), but not in cl. prose, c. indic., when (M, Pr., 167 f.; Bl., § 65, 9): c. impf., Mk 3:11(cf. Ge 38:9, al.); c. praes., Mk 11:25; c. fut., Re 4:9 (Swete, in l.); c. aor., Mk 11:19, Re 8:1 (Swete, in ll.; M, Pr., 168, 248; Field, Notes, 35).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὅταν, ‘‘whenever,” is construed (1) c. subj. pres. in such passages as P Fay 109} (early i/A.D.) ὅταν πρὸς ἀνάνκαιν (Δ ἀνάγκην) θέλῃς παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ χρήσασθαί τι, εὐθύς σε οὐ κρατῶι, ‘‘whenever you from necessity want to borrow anything from me, I at once give in to you”’ (Edd.), P Oxy XIV. 167676 (iii/A.D.) τὸ σύνφορόν cov Tole ὅταν yap θέλῃς ἡμᾶς πάντοτε ἰδεῖν, ἥδιστά σε παραδεξόμεθα, ‘do what suits you; for when you wish to see us always, we shall receive you with the greatest pleasure ’’ (Edd.), and (2) c. subj. aor. in such passages as P Lips I. 10418 (c. B.C. 96-5) (= Witkowski*, p. 116) ὅταν ἡμῖν γρ]Ιάψης, ἔνψυχόν τι λαμβάνω, P Εν] 11. 233? (ii/A.D.) ὅταν δὲ ἐπ᾽ ἀγαθῷ ἐκβῶμεν καὶ τὸ δῶμα ἀσφαλισθήσεται ἡ διαβάθρα καγγελωτὴ (4. καγκελλωτὴ) καὶ τὰ προσκήνια γενήσεται, “but when we reach a fortunate issue and the house is established, then a balustrade will be added to the stairway and the porch’’ (Edd.), and P Grenf 11. 73% (late iii/a.p.) (= Selections, p. 118) καὶ ὅταν ἔλθῃ σὺν Θεῷ, μαρτυρήσι (ΞΞ ει) περὶ ὧν αὐτὴν πεποιήκασιν, “᾿ ἀπ when he arrives by the help of God, he will bear you witness of what they have done to her.”’ Of ὅταν c. ind., which occurs gzzzmgzzes in the NT, we can quote P Hamb 1. 70'* (soon after A.D. 144-5) ὅταν τὸν λόγον δίδομεν τῷ ἀφήλικι. In PSI 1V. 4345 (B.C. 261-0) ὅταν περιοδεύω, the verb is probably in the subj., and in P Par 261-14 (B.c. 162) (= Selections, p. 14) Wilcken (UPZ i. p. 247) now reads ὅτ᾽ ἀνέβημεν for ὅταν ἔβημεν. See however P Ryl 233 wf s., where, with reference to ἀσφαλισθήσεται, the editors remark that *‘the writer apparently forgot that ὅταν had preceded.” For ὅταν c. imperf. (Mk 3", cf. Burton ὃ 315) we may quote the curious anti-Christian inscr. in C. and B. 343° OTE (= il. p. 477) οὗτος ὃ βίος μοι γέγονεν (aoristic!) ὅταν ἔζων ἐγώ. In Mk 113 we may perhaps translate ‘‘ when evening fell,’’ i.e. the evening before the πρωί of 7°: in this way an awkward sequence is avoided, cf. Pro/eg. p. 248. OTE. This common word is almost invariably construed in the NT with the indicative and generally with the aorist: cf. PSI IV. 3221 (B.c. 266-5) ὅτ᾽ ἔγραψ[άς μοι], ἐπιστολὴν ἀπεστάλκειμεν ἐξ ᾿Αλεξα[νδρείας, 72. V. 4471 (A.D. 167) ὅτε αὐτοῖς ἡ πολιτεία ἐδόθη. ᾿ΑΦ᾽ ὅτε occurs in an amusing letter which a man writes to his wife who had left him, but whom he wishes to return—P Oxy III. 5289 (ii/A.p.) of Φαῶφι ἀφ᾽ ὅτε ἐλουσάμην pet ἐσοῦ οὐκ ἐλουσάμην οὐκ ἤλιμζμδε (Δ ἤλειμζμδ αι) μεχρεὶ ιβ ᾿Αθύρ, ‘since we bathed together on Phaophi 12 I never bathed nor anointed myself until Athur 12”’ (Edd.). For ὅτε piv... ὅτε δέ, see the Gnomon des Idios Logos ὃ 67 (= BGU V. p. 27) ὅτε μὲν ἐξ ὅλων ὅτε δὲ ἐξ Hploouls ὅτ]ε δὲ ἐκ τετάρτ[ ο]υ ἀνελήμ[φ]θησαν. Vett. Val. p. 106%° ἔστι δὲ αὐτῆς καὶ ἄλλο σχῆμα, ὅτε ἄρξηται πρῶτον μειοῦσθαι is an ex. of ὅτε c. conj. According to the best attested reading the words ἥξει ὅτε form no part of the true text in Lk 13%.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὅταν (hotan) — when(-ever). ὅταν, for ὅτ᾽ ἄν (ὅτε ἄν) as sometimes in codices: adverb of Time, __A whenever, with a conditional force, so as nearly to ={ἐάν} (see. εἰ [Refs 5th c.BC+], referring to an indefinite future [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of events like ly to recur,[Refs]: also in Epic dialect ὅτε κεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated for rhetorical effect, ὅ. ὡς ὑβρίζων, ὅ. ὡς ἐχθρὸς ὑπάρχων, ὅ. κονδύλοις, ὅ. ἐπὶ κόρρης [Refs 4th c.BC+] __A.b later causal, since, ὅταν.. ᾖ since it is, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; in earlier examples the application to the particular case is less directly expressed, καὶ τοῦτο τυφλὸν ὅταν ἐγὼ βλέπω βραχύ this too (i.e. my staff) is blind when I am (= when its owner is) short-sighted, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.2 never with indicative in early authors, except in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; and in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: but frequently in LXX with imperfect indicative, as ὅταν εἰσήρχετο [LXX+2nd c.BC+]: also with aorist indicative, [LXX+NT]: with future indicative, ὅταν ἕξουσι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὅταν ὄψεσθε (variant{ὄψησθε}) [NT]: with present indicative, ὅταν δείκνυται [Refs 1st c.BC+] __A.3 never with optative in early authors, except in indirect speech, where in orat. recta the subjunctive with ὅταν would have stood, as perhaps [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὅτε κεν followed by ἵκοι, [Refs 8th c.BC+] __A.II Special usages: __A.II.1 to introduce a simile,[Refs 8th c.BC+] __A.II.2 πρίν γ᾽ ὅ., ={πρίν γε ἢ ὅ}. (see. ὅτε [Refs 4th c.BC+] __A.II.3 εἰς ὅτε κεν until such time as.., [Refs] __A.II.4 ὅ. τάχιστα, Latin cum primum, [Refs 5th c.BC+]