tovte tovte, demonstrative adverb of time (from the neuter article tov, and the enclitic tev (which see); answering to the relative o{te (K?hner, sec. 506, 2 c.)), from Homer down, then; at that time; a. then i. e. at the time when the things under consideration were taking place (of a concomitant event): (tovte ejplhrwvqh); ,; ,; ; ; ; ,; ; followed by a more precise specification of the time by means of an added participle, Matt. ii,16; ; opposed to nu'n, ; ; oJ tovte kovsmo", the world that then was, . b. then i. e. when the thing under consideration had been said or done, thereupon; so in the historical writers (especially Matthew), by way of transition from one thing mentioned to another which could not take place before it (Winer's Grammar, 540 (503); Buttmann, sec. 151, 31 at the end): ,; ; ; ; ; ; not infrequently of things which took place immediately afterward, so that it is equivalent to which having been done or heard: ; ; f; ; ; ; ; ,; f; ; tovte ou\n, (Lachmann brackets ou\n); , ; ; eujqevw" tovte, ; tovte preceded by a more definite specification of time, as metav tov ywmivon, ; or by an aorist participle . o{te ... tovte, etc., when ... then: ; ; ; wJ" ... tovte, etc., ; ; preceded by a genitive absolute which specifies time, . ajpov tovte from that time on, see ajpov, I. 4 b., p. 58{b}. c. of things future; then (at length) when the thing under discussion takes place (or shall have taken place): tovte simply, ,; ,,,,f; opposed to a[rti, ; kaiv tovte, ; ; ,,; ,f; ; ; ; ; kaiv tovte preceded by prw'ton, ; ; . o{tan (with a subjunctive present) ... tovte, etc. when ... then, etc. (Winer's Grammar, sec. 60, 5), <<ref:BHS/GNT_2Co 12:10$$2 Co