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Hallelujah

//ˌhæl.əˈl(j)uː.jə// intj, noun, verb

Definitions

Intj
  1. 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. 2
    A general expression of gratitude or adoration. broadly

    "Hallelujah! It’s finally the weekend!"

Noun
  1. 1
    A shout of “Hallelujah”.

    "So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept."

  2. 2
    a shout or song of praise to God wordnet
  3. 3
    A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah".
  4. 4
    General praise. in-plural

    "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. 1
    To cry "hallelujah" in praise. intransitive

    "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, […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”).

Etymology 2

From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”).

Etymology 3

From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”).

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