\Hal`le*lu"iah\, Hallelujah \Hal`le*lu"jah\, n. &
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 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.