The corpus record — Latin

hallĕlūjah

hallĕlūjah · interj

praised be God! praise the Lord!

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What it meant

hallĕlūjah — Lewis & Short

hallĕlūjah (āllĕlūia), interj.Hebr. halal, to praise; Jah = Jehovah,

I praised be God! praise the Lord! Form hall-, August. Ep. 86, 178; Sid. Ep. 2, 10; Prud. Nol. Carm. 37, 56. Form all-, Vulg. Job, 13, 22; Psa. 104, 1; Apoc. 19, 1, 3, 4 al.—Deriv. hallĕlūjătĭcus, a, um: psalmi, devoted to praise, containing hallelujahs, August. Psa. 105.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.