'After these things I heard, as if it were, a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying, 'Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.

In Psalm 115:17 occurs the imperfect form of Hallelujah, namely יהללו־יה, Yehallelujah, meaning 'they are praising Yah' or 'they will praise Yah'. Hallelujah!' (115:18) 'The Truth of YHWH endures forever. 'We will bless Yah, from this time forth and evermore. And 'Blessed be YHWH, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity. Or as the Psalmist puts it: 'Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Not only humans are waiting anxiously for the fulfillment all of creation has fallen and all of creation longs for the end, the freedom and the glory of the children of God ( Romans 8:18-22). Then he commands, 'Let the earth bring forth the soul of life, according to its kind. A verse later he creates the creepers and sea beasts, also endowed with the soul of life (1:21). In Genesis 1:20, God creates 'swarmers that swarm' and gives them the soul of life. It's a common misconception to believe that only humans have souls. The Bible sometimes calls death the 'way of all the earth' (Joshua 23:14, 1 Kings 2:2) and the Psalmist distinctively admonishes not only his soul to perform Hallelujah (146:1), but also everything that has breath (150:6). It seems that the word Hallelujah tends to show up in the vicinity of contemplations on death, which is after all the final moment of letting go every living creature has to deal with. Hallelujah seems to fulfill the function of a mere liturgical term a call to praise, like 'here we go!' But under scrutiny a second meaning emerges, or perhaps the primary meaning that had slipped under the popular or liturgical one. In the Old Testament, it occurs only in the Psalms, and often at the beginning. Although Hallelujah consists of two distinct verbal entities (a verb and a name), it's consistently written as one word.

What is the meaning of hallelujah