παράκλητος

English (LSJ)

ον,

   A called to one's aid, in a court of justice : as Subst., legal assistant, advocate, D.19.1, Lycurg. Fr.102, etc.    2 summoned, δοῦλοι D.C.46.20, cf. BGU601.12 (ii A.D.).    II intercessor, Ph.2.520 : hence in NT, Παράκλητος, of the Holy Spirit, Ev.Jo.14.16, cf. 1 Ep.Jo.2.1.

German (Pape)

[Seite 483] zu Hülfe gerufen, hülfreich, bes. vor Gericht, advocatus, als subst. Sachwalter, Dem. 19, 1; auch der für Einen bittet, Sp., vgl. D. L. 4, 50; N. T.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

παράκλητος: -ον, ὁ προσκληθεὶς ὡς βοηθός τινος ἐν δικαστηρίῳ, Λατ. advocatus· ὡς οὐσιαστ., νομικὸς βοηθός, συνήγορος, Δημ. 341. 10, κτλ.· πρβλ. Herm. Pol. Ant. § 142. 14· - μεσίτης ὑπέρ τινος, Φίλων 2. 520, κτλ. ΙΙ. ἐν τῇ Καινῇ Διαθ. καὶ παρὰ τοῖς Ἐκκλ., ὁ Παράκλητος, τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ὁ συνήγορος ἢ παρήγορος, = διδάσκαλος, Θεόδ. Μοψουεστ. 777Α· - μετὰ τῆς λέξεως πνεῦμα, τίθεται οὐδετέρως τὸ παράκλητον, Εὐσεβ. VI. 1008A, 1012D, 1009B, Μακάρ. 521C, κλ.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ος, ον :
qu’on appelle à son secours ; ὁ παράκλητος avocat, défenseur (lat. advocatus).
Étymologie: παρακαλέω.

English (Strong)

an intercessor, consoler: advocate, comforter.

English (Thayer)

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 Judges , 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 §§ 3,4; so of Christ, in his exaltation at God's right hand, pleading with God the Father for the pardon of our sins, 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: 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 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 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.).