hallel
noun
hallel is a noun meaning “A hymn of praise chanted during the Passover supper, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-L-L-E-L, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hallel is hallels.
What does hallel mean?
noun
- 1
A hymn of praise chanted during the Passover supper, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hallel
- hallels plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hallel?
Hallel appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hallel come from?
From Hebrew הַלֵּל (halél).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).