Hallelujah

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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. )
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           So sung they, and the empyrean rung
           With Hallelujahs.                        --Milton.
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           In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he
           walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his
           hallelujahs."                            --Sharp.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hallelujah
       n : a shout or song of praise to God

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "hallelujah":
     Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis,
     Introit, Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion,
     Vedic hymn, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony,
     applause, canticle, chant, cheer, chorale, chorus of cheers, cry,
     doxology, hooray, hosanna, hurrah, hurray, huzzah, hymn,
     hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, laud, mantra,
     motet, offertory, offertory sentence, paean, psalm, psalmody, rah,
     report, response, responsory, shout, versicle, yell, yippee
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Hallelujah, praise the Lord