hallelujah
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Etymology[edit]
From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhæl.əˈl(j)uː.jə/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: hal‧le‧lu‧jah
Interjection[edit]
hallelujah
- An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 19:1, column 2:
- 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:
- (by extension) A general expression of gratitude or adoration.
- Hallelujah! It’s finally the weekend!
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
exclamation to praise God
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general exclamation of gratitude
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Noun[edit]
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hallelujah (plural hallelujahs)
- A shout of “Hallelujah”.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 633–634:
- So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept.
- (music) A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah".
- (in the plural) General praise.
- 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 441:
- 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?
Translations[edit]
shout of Hallelujah
general praise
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Verb[edit]
hallelujah (third-person singular simple present hallelujahs, present participle hallelujahing, simple past and past participle hallelujahed)
- (intransitive) To cry "hallelujah" in praise.
- 1971, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in Pic:
- 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, […]
Translations[edit]
to cry "Hallelujah"
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