» For the school of Peter Abelard, see Oratory of the Paraclete. Paraclete (lat. paracletus) comes from the Koine Greek word παράκλητος (paráklētos, "one who consoles, one who intercedes on our behalf, a comforter or an advocate"). It may reflect a translation of the Hebrew word מְנַחֵם‎ (mənaḥḥēm "comforter"). According to Walter Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the… (More on Paraclete)