PRAISE THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
The word praise in different languages
Praise (Strong's #1984 הָלַל halal).
1984
hal•lū•hū,
הַ֝לְל֗וּהוּ
Praise
Aramaic/Hebrew halal הָלַל verb shine
Late Hebrew הִלּוּל shine
Aramaic הִילּוּלָא shine
(Note: Babylon Aramaic is now being called Hebrew).
Pa`el Syriac praise
Alalu (Assyrian) praise
Pi`el (Arabic) praise
Greek Original Word: ἔπαινος, ου, ὁ-epainos (praise, recognition).
Laudo (Latin) praise or I praise
In every Hebrew case "el" is in reference to God.
There is not a single time the praise is to another god by any name.
The Hebrew or Aramaic "halal or halel":
Has a direct reference to God with "al or el" as the object of worship. We have a a two syllable compound word here "Hal-el." El is the object of "hal." What does "hal" mean?
According to my research "Hal" has no meaning in Aramaic or Hebrew.
It appears to me that it must then be a contraction or abbreviation of halal which means to shine. Halal does not mean praise. Halal-El would simply mean "shine God."
The only logical interpretation of shine is found in the word "glory" which in the holy of holies the divine presence was a shining light called the glory of God. Halal-El can only mean "glory to God" or the "glory of God."
We must now ask how glory to God (halal-El) became hallel-ia, hallelu-ia, and at last hallelu-ya(h)?
The only answer that has any credibility is that the change took place when the Aramaic language was adopted in Babylon. In Babylon the god Ia or Ya was adopted as an equal to or replacement of El. There is no other possible answer for when and how El was switched out for this god named "Ia/Ya(h).
We would expect then in the Aramaic/Hebrew translations for the switch from El to Ya or Yah/Jah to show up and it does in the book of Psalms in chapters 113-118 and 145-150. But oddly is absent throughout the rest of the Old Testament. Since Abraham and those before him only knew El as God, the use of hallelujah or even alleluia was never upon their lips. They never worshipped or knew a god named Ia or Jah.
Now since Hal has no Hebrew meaning, if we take it away from hallelujah, the word is reduced to "elujah." If we take away the Babylonian "jah" we have remaining the original El, God.
We can restore the original praise of "glory to God" and never say any praise to the god "yah or jah" who ever this god is. Some believe it refers to the Egyptian moon god yah, others to the Babylonian god Ia or Ea. Still others to the YHWH god who remains a mystery to most scholars. We know according to Strong's #1180 this Yah is Baal and now answers to Jehovah or YHWH from which Jehovah and Yahweh descend.
Conclusion: all praise should be to God our El and this is Jesus. Since every knee shall now to him, all praise should be to him. If he will not give his glory, his shining divine presence to another, there is then just one glory that should proceed from our lips. It is to him alone.
You will not appreciate the meaning of "Glory" applied to Jesus in the New Testament until you can grasp the worship and praise we should not give to another.
I can find no greater way to give glory to God than in saying "Praise Jesus" or "hallelu-Jesus." Whose divine glory, the bright and shining light, do we honor?
To you, JESUS, we give all the honor, the praise, the GLORY.
To you alone.
Pastor G. Reckart
Jan 1, 2013
The word praise in different languages
Praise (Strong's #1984 הָלַל halal).
1984
hal•lū•hū,
הַ֝לְל֗וּהוּ
Praise
Aramaic/Hebrew halal הָלַל verb shine
Late Hebrew הִלּוּל shine
Aramaic הִילּוּלָא shine
(Note: Babylon Aramaic is now being called Hebrew).
Pa`el Syriac praise
Alalu (Assyrian) praise
Pi`el (Arabic) praise
Greek Original Word: ἔπαινος, ου, ὁ-epainos (praise, recognition).
Laudo (Latin) praise or I praise
In every Hebrew case "el" is in reference to God.
There is not a single time the praise is to another god by any name.
The Hebrew or Aramaic "halal or halel":
Has a direct reference to God with "al or el" as the object of worship. We have a a two syllable compound word here "Hal-el." El is the object of "hal." What does "hal" mean?
According to my research "Hal" has no meaning in Aramaic or Hebrew.
It appears to me that it must then be a contraction or abbreviation of halal which means to shine. Halal does not mean praise. Halal-El would simply mean "shine God."
The only logical interpretation of shine is found in the word "glory" which in the holy of holies the divine presence was a shining light called the glory of God. Halal-El can only mean "glory to God" or the "glory of God."
We must now ask how glory to God (halal-El) became hallel-ia, hallelu-ia, and at last hallelu-ya(h)?
The only answer that has any credibility is that the change took place when the Aramaic language was adopted in Babylon. In Babylon the god Ia or Ya was adopted as an equal to or replacement of El. There is no other possible answer for when and how El was switched out for this god named "Ia/Ya(h).
We would expect then in the Aramaic/Hebrew translations for the switch from El to Ya or Yah/Jah to show up and it does in the book of Psalms in chapters 113-118 and 145-150. But oddly is absent throughout the rest of the Old Testament. Since Abraham and those before him only knew El as God, the use of hallelujah or even alleluia was never upon their lips. They never worshipped or knew a god named Ia or Jah.
Now since Hal has no Hebrew meaning, if we take it away from hallelujah, the word is reduced to "elujah." If we take away the Babylonian "jah" we have remaining the original El, God.
We can restore the original praise of "glory to God" and never say any praise to the god "yah or jah" who ever this god is. Some believe it refers to the Egyptian moon god yah, others to the Babylonian god Ia or Ea. Still others to the YHWH god who remains a mystery to most scholars. We know according to Strong's #1180 this Yah is Baal and now answers to Jehovah or YHWH from which Jehovah and Yahweh descend.
Conclusion: all praise should be to God our El and this is Jesus. Since every knee shall now to him, all praise should be to him. If he will not give his glory, his shining divine presence to another, there is then just one glory that should proceed from our lips. It is to him alone.
You will not appreciate the meaning of "Glory" applied to Jesus in the New Testament until you can grasp the worship and praise we should not give to another.
I can find no greater way to give glory to God than in saying "Praise Jesus" or "hallelu-Jesus." Whose divine glory, the bright and shining light, do we honor?
To you, JESUS, we give all the honor, the praise, the GLORY.
To you alone.
Pastor G. Reckart
Jan 1, 2013
Bishop Reckart,
ReplyDeleteI'm really happy to see this post. The name Jesus perfectly summarizes how we are saved
in that God became our salvation. Our salvation
required a sacrifice and Jesus was that sacrifice.
It is really strange how persons hold to guess names when the scriptures teach plainly that Jesus is the Name above all names. Furthermore, this is the Name that is relevant to our salvation.
When God through Moses was about to save Israel from Egypt, He revealed to Moses a Name by which they were to remember Him for all generations. The revelation of Ehyeh was directly connected with salvation from Egypt.
God revealed a Name by which the church should remember Him and honor Him. That Name is Jesus. The revelation of the Name is connected with our deliverance from sin.
Bishop Reckart, I believe that some Apostolics fall into the trinitarian conundrum of giving members of the trinity different names. So Jehovah is the Father, Jesus is the Son and the Holy Ghost has no name. If we understand that the Divine person of the Father was manifested in human form and existence as Jesus, then the Name of Jesus is perfectly understood to be the Name of God!
We who know that Jesus is the Almighty God and the Seed of David, the Lion and the Lamb, will honor that name.
May God continue to bless you as you enlighten the body of Christ about the importance of the Name Jesus.
Some additional information has come in. Hal in the word hallelujah means nothing. But drop the l and we have "ha" which does have the meaning of "the." Next, it can be seen that "lelu" is the same as the Assyrian Aramaic as "lalu" which means praise. So ha-lalu means "the praise." We now know this is Aramaic and not ancient Paleo Hebrew. From what we can gather praise in ancient Hebrew was the word Judah. We will assess this for additional understanding.
ReplyDeletepraise is correct? "Hallelu-Yeh"
ReplyDeleteBishop I appreciate your research on this alleged praise. I did a study on alleluia last year which reveal that there is no praise at all in this word if we were to accept that this a Greek word. Even if we accept that its a Hebrew word as they say, then the closest we could get to a word meaning praise is "halal" and as you rightly said this really means shine. I discovered 4 other Greek words with the same root "alle" and they all have similar meaning except alleluia. Allegory is one of those words. I dont know if you have seen the entire study but you may have seen excerpts that i posted on fb.
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