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Webster 1913 Edition
Hallelujah
{
Halˊle-lu′iah
,Halˊle-lu′jah
}(hălˊlē̍-lū′yȧ)
, Noun.
& 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
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.