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Hallelujah (hăl'əl`yə) or Alleluia (ăl–) [Heb.,=praise the Lord], joyful expression used in Hebrew worship; cf. Pss. 104–6, 111–13, 115–17, 135, 146–50. Christian liturgies make wide use of it, particularly at Easter time. The Hallelujah Chorus is the brilliant concluding piece of Part II of Handel's Messiah.
hallelujah, halleluiah, alleluia
a musical composition that uses the word Hallelujah as its text


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It takes in a "secret chord", King David cheating with the woman whose husband he'd kill, Samson getting tied to his chair by his girlfriend to have his head shorn and "then standing before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue" but 18 Hallelujahs.
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No doubt the hearty hallelujahs are inspired by the actual Last Supper, where the disciples began the tradition of breaking into 12-part harmony every time the "hour candle" burned down.
 
 
 
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