Greek

Proper noun

Παράκλητος • ‎(Paráklitos) m

1. (Christianity) Holy Spirit, Paraclete
2. (without capital) (one who comforts)

Declension

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /paráklitos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paráklitos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paɾáklitos/

Adjective

παράκλητος • ‎(paráklētos) m, f ‎(neuter παράκλητον); second declension

1. Called to aid, helping
2. (substantive) legal assistant, advocate
3. (substantive) One of who speaks on behalf: mediator, intercessor
4. (substantive) comforter, helper

Inflection

References

• παράκλητος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παράκλητος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «παράκλητος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G3875”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • advocate idem, page 15.
  • lawyer idem, page 480.
  • pleader idem, page 619.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παράκλητος

Noun

παράκλητος • ‎(paráklitos) m ‎(plural παράκλητοι)

1. comforter (one who comforts)
2. (with capital, Christianity) Holy Spirit, Paraclete

Declension