Greek noun (masculine) · G3875
παράκλητος
parakletospar-ak'-lay-tos
counsellor
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: paráklētos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3875is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3875
an intercessor, consoler
The King James renders it: advocate, comforter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
parakletos is rendered "counsellor". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
John 14:16παράκλητον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Helper4
- an advocate1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παρά | para | from/with/beside | Uses192 |
| παραδίδωμι | paradidomi | to deliver | Uses119 |
| παρακαλέω | parakaleo | to plead/comfort | Uses108 |
| παραβολή | parabole | parable | Uses50 |
| παραλαμβάνω | paralambano | to take | Uses49 |
| παραγίνομαι | paraginomai | to come | Uses36 |
| παραγγέλλω | parangello | to order | Uses31 |
| παράκλησις | paraklesis | encouragement | Uses29 |
| παράπτωμα | paraptoma | trespass | Uses19 |
| παρατίθημι | paratithemi | to set before | Uses19 |
| παραχρῆμα | parachrema | instantly | Uses18 |
| παράδοσις | paradosis | tradition | Uses13 |
and 60 more on the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- παράκλητος3
- παράκλητον2
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
John
four uses
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
- παράκλητονparakletonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Helper
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
- παράκλητοςparakletosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Helper
When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.
- παράκλητοςparakletosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Helper
But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
- παράκλητοςparakletosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Helper
1 John
one use
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- παράκλητονparakletonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: an advocate
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.