Strong's Greek: 3875. παράκλητος (paraklétos) -- called to one's aid

Strong's Concordance

paraklétos: called to one's aid

Original Word: παράκλητος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: paraklétos
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ak'-lay-tos)
Short Definition: an advocate, comforter, helper, Paraclete
Definition: (a) an advocate, intercessor, (b) a consoler, comforter, helper, (c) Paraclete.

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3875 paráklētos (from 3844 /pará, "from close-beside" and 2564 /kaléō, "make a call") – properly, a legal advocate who makes the right judgment-call because close enough to the situation. 3875 /paráklētos ("advocate, advisor-helper") is the regular term in NT times of an attorney (lawyer) – i.e. someone giving evidence that stands up in court.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3875: παράκλητος

παράκλητος, παρακλητου, ὁ (παρακαλέω), properly, summoned, called to one's side, especially called to one's aid; hence,

1. "one who pleads another's cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant; an advocate": Demosthenes, p. 341, 11; (Diogenes Laërtius 4, 50, cf. Dio Cassius, 46, 20.

2. universally, one who pleads another's cause with one, an intercessor: Philo, de mund. opif. § 59; de Josepho § 40; in Flaccum §§ 3 and 4; so of Christ, in his exaltation at God's right hand, pleading with God the Father for the pardon of our sins, 1 John 2:1 (in the same sense, of the divine Logos in Philo, vita Moys. iii. § 14).

3. in the widest sense, a helper, succorer, aider, assistant; so of the Holy Spirit destined to take the place of Christ with the apostles (after his ascension to the Father), to lead them to a deeper knowledge of gospel truth, and to give them the divine strength needed to enable them to undergo trials and persecutions on behalf of the divine kingdom: John 14:16, 26; John 15:26; John 16:7, cf. Matthew 10:19; Mark 13:11; Luke 12:11f (Philo de mund. opif. § 6 at the beginning says that God in creating the world had no need of a παράκλητος, an adviser, counsellor, helper. The Targums and Talmud borrow the Greek words פְּרַקְלִיט and פְּרַקְלִיטָא and use them of any intercessor, defender, or advocate; cf. Baxtorf, Lex. Talm., p. 1843 ((edited by Fischer, p. 916)); so Targ. on Job 33:23 for מֵלִיץ מַלְאָך, i. e. an angel that pleads man's cause with God; (cf. πλουσίων παρακλητοι in 'Teaching' etc. 5 [ET] under the end; the Epistle of Barnabas 20, 2 [ET]; Apostolic Constitutions 7, 18)). Cf. Knapp, Scripta varii Argumenti, p. 124ff; Düsterdieck on 1 John 2:1, p. 147ff; (Watkins, Excursus G, in Ellicott's N. T. Commentary for English Readers; Westcott in the Speaker's commentary Additional Note on John 14:16; Schaff in Lange ibid.).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

An intercessor, consoler -- advocate, comforter.

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Strong's Greek 3875
5 Occurrences

παράκλητον — 2 Occ.
παράκλητος — 3 Occ.

John 14:16 N-AMS
GRK: καὶ ἄλλον παράκλητον δώσει ὑμῖν
NAS: you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;
KJV: another Comforter, that
INT: and another Helper he will give you

John 14:26 N-NMS
GRK: ὁ δὲ παράκλητος τὸ πνεῦμα
NAS: But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
KJV: But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy
INT: but [the] Helper the Spirit

John 15:26 N-NMS
GRK: ἔλθῃ ὁ παράκλητος ὃν ἐγὼ
NAS: When the Helper comes, whom
KJV: But when the Comforter is come, whom
INT: is come the Helper whom I

John 16:7 N-NMS
GRK: ἀπέλθω ὁ παράκλητος οὐ οὐκ
NAS: I do not go away, the Helper will not come
KJV: not away, the Comforter will not
INT: I go away the Helper no not at all

1 John 2:1 N-AMS
GRK: τις ἁμάρτῃ παράκλητον ἔχομεν πρὸς
NAS: we have an Advocate with the Father,
KJV: we have an advocate with
INT: anyone should sin an advocate we have with