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Definition: Hallelujah |
HallelujahNoun1. A shout or song of praise to God. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Hallelujah" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "praise the Lord". |
Date "hallelujah" was first used: 1535. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Hallelujah praise ye Jehovah, frequently rendered "Praise ye the LORD," stands at the beginning of ten of the psalms (106, 111-113, 135, 146-150), hence called "hallelujah psalms." From its frequent occurrence it grew into a formula of praise. The Greek form of the word (alleluia) is found in Rev. 19:1, 3, 4, 6. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Hallelujah is the Hebrew halelu-Jah, "Praise ye Jehovah." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Worship | Thanksgiving; giving thanks, returning thanks; grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna; hallelujah, allelujah; Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis; paean; benschen; Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion. |
Interjection: hallelujah, allelujah! hosanna! glory be to God! O Lord! pray God that! God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid! sursum corda. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hallelujah |
| English words defined with "hallelujah": Alleluiah ♦ Halleluiah. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hallelujah": Hallelujah Lass, Hallelujah Victory. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Glory hallelujah. (Glory; writing credit: Robert Gould Shaw; Lincoln Kirstein) Hallelujah, Hallelujah (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Stephen King; Jeffrey Boam) | |
Lyrics | I was singing Hallelujah (Mr. Sellack; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hallelujah Handshake (1970) The Hallelujah Trail (1965) Hallelujah the Hills (1962) I'm a Bum Hallelujah (1933) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Toledo, Ohio. Evangelical church ceremony at which the preacher delivered a hysterical speech, and then burned a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Preacher waving a church flag while the chorus sings Hallelujah. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Church choir signing hallelujah. |
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| "Hallelujah" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 58.49% of the time. "Hallelujah" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 58.49% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.51% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hallelujah": Hallelujah Diet ♦ Interjection: hallelujah. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "hallelujah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zoti qoftë lëvduar. (various references) | |
Arabic | هللويا الشكر لله. (various references) | |
Czech | aleluja (alleluia). (various references) | |
Farsi | هللویا(یعنی خداراحمدباد), تسبیح (Rosary). (various references) | |
French | alléluia (Hallel, halleluiah). (various references) | |
German | halleluja, Hallejuja. (various references) | |
Greek | αλληλούια (alleluia, halleluiah). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ללוי". (various references) | |
Hungarian | alleluja (alleluia, alleluja, halleluiah). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ハレー彗星 (Halley's comet, halo, harem, Hello Work). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハレルヤ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allelujahhay.(various references) | |
Russian | аллилуйя (alleluia, alleluias, halleluiah). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | aleluja (alleluia, halleluiah). (various references) | |
Spanish | aleluya (alleluia). (various references) | |
Swedish | halleluja (alleluia, halleluiah). (various references) | |
Turkish | elhamdülillah (alleluia, halleluiah, thank god), şükretme (being grateful for, being thankful, halleluiah, hosanna, thanksgiving), şükürler olsun (halleluiah, hosanna, thank god), şükür (glorification, gratitude, halleluiah, hosanna, thank god, thanks). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | b i hát ca ngợi Chúa (alleluia, halleluiah). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Classical Hebrew | 200 BCE-Modern | hallalu-yah. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hallelujah": hallelujahs. (additional references) | |
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"Hallelujah" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allelujah, haleluja, haleluyah, hallejulah, hallelejah, halleleujah, halleljuah, halleluah, halleluja, hallelujiah, halleluyah, halleujah. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-h-j-l-l-l-u" | |
-3 letters: allheal. | |
-4 letters: alulae, hallah, hallel. | |
-5 letters: ahull, alula, lehua. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-h-j-l-l-l-u" | |
+1 letter: hallelujahs. | |
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