"הללויה" meaning in Hebrew

See הללויה in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /hallaˌluːˈjaːh/ (note: reconstructed Biblical), /hallaˌluːˈjɔːɔh/ (note: Tiberian), /(h)aleluˈja(h)/ [Modern-Israeli], /(h)aleˈluja(h)/ [Modern-Israeli] Audio: LL-Q9288 (heb)-YaronSh-הללויה.wav Forms: הַלְּלוּיָהּ [canonical], hal'luyáh [romanization], הַלְּלוּ יָהּ [alternative], הַלְּלוּקָהּ [alternative]
Etymology: From הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”). Etymology templates: {{ety|he|:af|הילל<alt:הַלְּלוּ><t:praise!>|יָהּ<t:Lord, Jah>}}, {{af|he|הילל<alt:הַלְּלוּ><t:praise!>|יָהּ<t:Lord, Jah>}} הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”) Head templates: {{head|he|phrase|head=הַלְּלוּיָהּ|tr=hal'luyáh}} הַלְּלוּיָהּ • (hal'luyáh)
  1. praise the Lord
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Hebrew dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.