Sekirov Dictionary

hallelujah

/ˌhæl.əˈl(j)uː.jə/

exclamation 2
noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

exclamation2

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praise and thanks to God, used especially in songs and prayers
- 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: — 1611
•
A general expression of gratitude or adoration.
- Hallelujah! It’s finally the weekend!

noun3

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A shout of “Hallelujah”.
- So sung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept. — 1667
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[in the plural] General praise.
- 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? — 1855
A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah".

verb1

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To cry "hallelujah" in praise.
- 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, […] — 1971

forms

hallelujahed · hallelujahing · hallelujahs

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