הִלּוּל
hilul · praise, rejoicing
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1974 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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hilul (הִלּוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “praise, rejoicing”.
Praise, joyful celebration of the harvest.
How to say it
hi·lul
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A feast of joy and thanks to God, especially for the harvest.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- festival of praise ×1
- offering of praise ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 19:24
And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to YHWH.
- Judges 9:27
They went out into the field and harvested their vineyards and trod the grapes, and they held a festival of praise; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.