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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halleluiah \Hal`le*lu"iah\, Hallelujah \Hal`le*lu"jah\
(h[a^]l`l[-e]*l[=u]"y[.a]), n. & interj. [Heb. See
Alleluia.]
Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used
chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an
expression of gratitude or adoration.
--Rev. xix. 1 (Rev.
Ver. )
So sung they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs.
--Milton.
In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,``any one as he
walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his
hallelujahs.''
--Sharp.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also halleluiah, 1530s, from Hebrew hallalu-yah "praise ye Jehovah," from hallalu, plural imperative of hallel "to praise" also "song of praise," from hillel "he praised," of imitative origin, with primary sense being "to trill." Second element is yah, shortened form of Yahweh, name of God. Replaced variant formation alleluia (12c.).
Wiktionary
interj. 1 An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God. 2 A general expression of gratitude or adoration. n. 1 A shout of “#Interjection”. 2 (context in the plural English) General praise. vb. (context intransitive English) To cry "hallelujah" in praise.
WordNet
n. a shout or song of praise to God
Wikipedia
Hallelujah is an English interjection roughly equivalent to "Praise the Lord!" or "God be praised!".
It is a transliteration of the Hebrew word ( Modern halleluya, Tiberian halləlûyāh), which is composed of two elements: (second-person imperative masculine plural form of the Hebrew verb hallal: an exhortation to "praise" addressed to several people) and (the names of God Jah or Yah).
Most well-known English versions of the Hebrew Bible translate the Hebrew "Hallelujah" (as at ) as two Hebrew words, generally rendered as "Praise (ye)" and "the ", but the second word is given as "Yah" in the Lexham English Bible and Young's Literal Translation, " Jah" in the New World Translation, "Jehovah" in the American Standard Version, and "Hashem" in the Orthodox Jewish Bible. Instead of a translation, the transliteration "Hallelujah" is used by JPS Tanakh, International Standard Version, Darby Translation, God's Word Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, and The Message, with the spelling "Halleluyah" appearing in the Complete Jewish Bible. The Greek-influenced form "Alleluia" appears in Wycliffe's Bible, the Knox Version and the New Jerusalem Bible.
In the great song of praise to God for his triumph over the Whore of Babylon in chapter 19 of the New Testament book of Revelation, the Greek word ἀλληλούϊα (allēluia), a transliteration of the same Hebrew word, appears four times, as an expression of praise rather than an exhortation to praise. In English translations this is mostly rendered as "Hallelujah", but as "Alleluia" in several translations, while a few have "Praise the Lord", "Praise God", "Praise our God", or "Thanks to our God".
הַלְּלוּיָהּ is found 24 times in the Book of Psalms, and the Greek transliteration ἀλληλούϊα appears in the Septuagint version of these Psalms, in and and four times in . The word is used in Judaism as part of the Hallel prayers, and in Christian prayer, where since the earliest times it is used in various ways in liturgies, especially those of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, both of which use the form "alleluia".
"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian recording artist Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a cover by John Cale, which inspired a cover by Jeff Buckley. Buckley's version is the most enduringly popular and critically acclaimed cover of the song to date. It is the subject of the book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" (2012) by Alan Light.
Following its increased popularity after being featured in the film Shrek (2001), many cover versions have been performed by many and various singers, both in recordings and in concert, with over 300 versions known. The song has been used in film and television soundtracks and televised talent contests.
Hallelujah is a Hebrew word meaning "Praise ye Jehovah/ Yahweh".
Hallelujah with the variation Alleluia may also refer to:
"Hallelujah" ( Hebrew script: הללויה) was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in Hebrew by Gali Atari and Milk & Honey for Israel.
Hallelujah is the fourth album by Canned Heat, released in 1969. It was re-released on CD in 2001 by MAM productions with four bonus tracks. It was the last album to feature classic lineup mark 1, as Vestine left the band prior to Future Blues.
Hallelujah is a 7-track EP by Madchester band Happy Mondays released in 1989 and featuring a number of remixes by Paul Oakenfold. "Hallelujah (MacColl Mix)" was created by Steve Lillywhite and features Kirsty MacColl. Oakenfold remixed "Hallelujah" with Andrew Weatherall and "Rave On" with Terry Farley. The club mix of "Hallelujah" was ranked at number 11 in NME's list of "The 50 Best Remixes Ever".
"Hallelujah" is a song by the American rock band Paramore, released as the second single from their second studio album Riot!. The single peaked at No. 139 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is not to be confused with the Leonard Cohen song of the same name, although on the Final Riot! summer 2008 tour, lead singer Hayley Williams performed an extract, accompanied by lead guitarist, Josh Farro.
This song has two versions; the first one is the demo which got filtered and by that reason Hayley put all of her effort to make the new song better.
Hallelujah! is a 1929 American Pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical directed by King Vidor, and starring Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney.
Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and chronicling the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson (Haynes), and his relationship with the seductive Chick (McKinney), Hallelujah was one of the first all-black films by a major studio. It was intended for a general audience and was considered so risky a venture by MGM that they required King Vidor to invest his own salary in the production. Vidor expressed an interest in "showing the Southern Negro as he is" and attempted to present a relatively non-stereotyped view of African-American life.
Hallelujah! was King Vidor's first sound film, and combined sound recorded on location and sound recorded post-production in Hollywood. King Vidor was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for the film.
In 2008, Hallelujah! was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
"Hallelujah" is the third single from the album Dying for a Heart by Krystal Meyers. "Hallelujah" peaked at No 28 on the Christian Rock chart.
"Hallelujah" is the first single to be released from ThisGirl's album Uno. The single was released prior to the album on June 14, 2004.
"Hallelujah" is a song by American rock band Panic! at the Disco. It was released as a single on April 19, 2015 through Fueled By Ramen as the first single from the band's fifth studio album Death of a Bachelor. "Hallelujah" debuted at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 selling over 71,000 copies, becoming the band's second top-40 hit single and the first in nine years since " I Write Sins Not Tragedies" was released in 2006.
It has been digitally streamed over 18 million times. "Hallelujah" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards.
Usage examples of "hallelujah".
Break out the harps and the hallelujahs, I was all sweetness and fear.
Amens, hallelujahs and hosannas rose from all, throughout the expectant congregation.
When the woman became silent and the chorus of Hallelujahs and amens died down, I felt a sense of relief.
Hazel and Pol and I - well, I suppose you know that Mars will be in a favorable position for the Hallelujah Node in about six weeks?
Most of my individual clients were the kind of people who didn't even bother to check the closing prices after they finished work in normal times, but the prevailing circumstances changed nine out of every ten of them into the kind of neurotic who programs his cell phone to sing the hallelujah chorus every time a key stock puts on five percent.
Sometimes, if the relations wailed and hallelujahed enough, and the Born Agains agitated for it, the Rev left the Born Agains with their folks, and got out of town before corruption set in.
Its terrors were nothing beside the memory of Huz-zah's scrap, twitching in the muck, or the hallelujahs he could still hear behind him, raised in ignorance of the fact that he—the savior of Lickerish Street—was also its destroyer, but no less tempting for that.
Attorney, I've got immunity from the DA in Owings Mills, Hallelujah.
Until that Neptunian roiling of a single note seemed overcome, or at least convinced and enfolded, by the rejoicing hallelujahs of those who opposed it, and all dissolved on a majestic and perfect chord and on a resupine neuma.
He remembered seeing him in Georgia, at a revival meeting, a rural stump religion circus of screaming and Hallelujahs that sounded like !
Some eighteen, twenty years ago he was a steamrolling, fire and brimstone fanatic called Al Farrah—his fucking ego wouldn't let him drop that part of his past, the hallelujah chorus part.