hallelujah

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Scrabble points
23
Words With Friends
27
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌhæl.əˈl(j)uː.jə/
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/ˌhæl.əˈl(j)uː.jə/ · /-ɪ-/

Definition of hallelujah

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

intj

  1. 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

  1. 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:”
  2. (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

  1. A shout of “Hallelujah”.
    “So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept.”
  2. A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah".
  3. (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

  1. (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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