hallelujah
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 23
- Words With Friends
- 27
- Letters
- 10
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Definition of hallelujah
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
intj
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An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
“AND after theſe things I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen, ſaying, Alleluia: ſaluation, and glorie, and honour, and power vnto the Lord our God:”
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intj
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An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
“AND after theſe things I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen, ſaying, Alleluia: ſaluation, and glorie, and honour, and power vnto the Lord our God:”
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(broadly)A general expression of gratitude or adoration.
“Hallelujah! It’s finally the weekend!”
“Hallelujah, it's nice to know you / It's so peculiar how you've come and changed my mind”
noun
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A shout of “Hallelujah”.
“So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept.”
- A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah".
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(in-plural)General praise.
“Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs?”
verb
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(intransitive)To cry "hallelujah" in praise.
“My aunt Gastonia […] she'd seen the Lord more times than they could ever count, and hallelujahed and hallelujahed, said, “While's all this the Gospel word and true, […]”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּ (halləlū) Biblical Hebrew יָהּ (yɔh) Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh)lbor. English hallelujah Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh), from הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”).
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