Advocate & Mediator
מֵלִיץ / סַנֵּגוֹר
The Advocate with the Father and the one Mediator between God and men — Job's ancient hope for an umpire, answered.
Job begged for someone able to lay a hand on both God and man; the NT's answer is a Mediator who IS both. Jewish tradition also knows heavenly advocates (the melitz of Job 33:23); the NT names one and says the case is won.
First occurrence
Job 9:33 — 'There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand on us both'
Key passages
Job 16:19 — 'Even now my witness is in heaven'
1John 2:1 — 'We have an Advocate with the Father'
1Tim 2:5 — 'One God, and one Mediator between God and men'
Heb 9:15 — Mediator of the new covenant
In the Greek Scriptures
Παράκλητος / Μεσίτης