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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Halleluiah \Hal`le*lu"iah\, Hallelujah \Hal`le*lu"jah\, 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hallelujah n : a shout or song of praise to God 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
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