Hotan introduces the time or circumstance in which another action, result, instruction, or statement occurs.

As a function word, it introduces clauses that set the time or circumstance for what follows: a future event and its result, a recurring situation, or an instruction tied to an occasion. The supplied clauses show this relation in predictions, ordinary actions, and repeated conditions rather than distinct lexical senses.

1. Introduces a temporal or conditional clause · dominant

   The supplied morphology identifies the form chiefly as a conjunction, linking an event or circumstance to a following statement. In 1 Corinthians 15:54 the APB renders a clause in which the perishable putting on incorruption is followed by the written word coming to pass; in John 16:21 it frames both the woman's grief at giving birth and her later joy after the child is born. It also introduces recurring circumstances, as in James 1:2, where the APB renders falling into various temptations, and practical occasions, as in 1 Corinthians 16:3, where arrival precedes sending approved people with the gift.

   1 Corinthians 15:54John 16:21James 1:21 Corinthians 16:3Luke 12:54John 15:26

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the clause with “when” or “whenever,” while some clauses are expressed with “once,” “after,” or another temporal construction. These English choices illustrate the clause-level relation rather than a fixed rendering.