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ὅταν

when

G3752 Strong's Greek
hótan Transliteration
/hot'-an/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 123 appearances

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About this entry

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οταν — transliterated hótan — is a Greek word carrying the sense “when.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 5:11. Spanning 119 verses in 17 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. See the sense tree, 119-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
as long as
Modern gloss
when
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3752 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

119
distinct verses
The word appears in 119 distinct verses.
17 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:11
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:11.
Revelation 20:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 20:7.
#135
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 135 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 119 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 83 · 70%
  • Acts 2 · 2%
  • Pauline Epistles 22 · 18%
  • General Epistles 3 · 3%
  • Revelation 9 · 8%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 119 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 83 verses · 70%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 29 verses · 24%
  • Johannine 26 verses · 22%
  • Pauline corpus 22 verses · 18%
  • Revelation 9 verses · 8%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 2%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 1%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: When 113×, Soon as 2×
  • American Standard Version: When 113×, Whensoever 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: When 88×, After 6×, Soon as 6×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: When 110×, Whenever 10×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3752 across 120 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “When” 113×
  • “Soon as” 2×

Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3752 across 119 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “When” 113×
  • “Whensoever” 3×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3752 across 108 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “When” 88×
  • “After” 6×
  • “Soon as” 6×
  • “Whenever” 2×
  • “While” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 11 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3752 across 123 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “When” 110×
  • “Whenever” 10×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. when, whenever, as long as, as soon as

Word origin

Derived from οτε (hóte) (G3753) — when.

From G3753 and G302 ; whenever (implying hypothesis or more or less uncertainty ); also causative (conjugationally) inasmuch as : - as long (soon) as that + till when (-soever) while.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G3752 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὅταν hótan Conjunction Matthew 5:11 114
Ὅταν Hótan Conjunction Matthew 6:16 9

Septuagint usage

The same Greek word οταν appears 175 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 163 verses in 26 books.

175
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
163
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
26 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3752) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 163. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3752) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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