Hote is a temporal relative adverb meaning 'when' or 'at the time when,' formed from the relative stem ho- and the particle te. It introduces subordinate clauses that locate actions in time, typically with the indicative mood for past events and occasionally shading into causal nuance. In the Gospels it commonly marks transitions: 'when Jesus had finished these sayings' (Matt 7:28), 'when the crowd had been put outside' (Matt 9:25). It answers to the demonstrative tote ('then') and the interrogative pote ('when?'). Translations render it consistently — Spanish 'cuando,' French 'quand,' German 'als.'