hallelujah
interjectionnounverbcommon in dialogue
- United States//ˌhæl.əˈl(j)uː.jə//
- United States//-ɪ-//
An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
interjection
- 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
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
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”).
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
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
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, […]
Forms
- plural
- hallelujahs
- past tense
- hallelujahed
- past participle
- hallelujahed
- present participle
- hallelujahing
- third person singular
- hallelujahs
hallelujah · An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
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