Meaning Of Hallelujah In The Bible
Interjection 106 1 is an integral part of the psalm.
Meaning of hallelujah in the bible. Hallelujah is an exclamation of worship or a call to praise transliterated from two hebrew words meaning praise ye the lord or praise yahweh some bible versions render the phrase praise the lord. It was also sung on solemn days of rejoicing as an expression of joy and praise and as such it has been adopted in the christian church and is still used in devotional psalmody revelation 19 1 3 4 6. Plainly a simple translation of hallelujah is praise the lord although hallelujah is written as one word its hebrew original comes from two words which have been merged into one.
1 however hallelujah means more than simply praise jah or praise yah as the word hallel in hebrew means a joyous praise in song to boast in god. In the hebrew bible hallelujah is actually a two word phrase not one word. The first part hallelu is the second person imperative masculine plural form of the hebrew verb hillel.
In the new testament alleluiah praise ye jehovah this word occurs at the beginning and at the end of many psalms.