'Hallelujah' is a Hebrew word meaning 'Praise the Lord'. Here, Lord refers to the Tetrgrammaton, the four-letter name of God: Yahweh or Jehovah, although observant Jews will not say this name aloud. Cohen is Jewish, and in the original version of the song he included several Biblical r...
Scholars can’t say for sure why hallelujah was preserved intact when nearly every other Hebrew word in the Bible was translated first into Greek and then into Latin (amen is another notable exception). Markus Rathey, a professor of early Christian music at Yale University, said it suggests t...
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords. 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair,“Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that ...
16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords. 17And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper...
Hallelujah, Hebrew liturgical expression usually rendered in English as ‘praise the Lord.’ It appears in the Hebrew Bible in several psalms, usually at the beginning or end of the psalm or in both places. In the New Testament it appears only in Revelat