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√HLː (HLL)
▪ HLː (HLL)_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ HLː (HLL)_2 ‘…’ ↗… ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘new moon, (of the moon) to appear for the first time; (of the month) to start; crescent, crescent-šaped; to come forth; to exalt God, to invoke God’s name upon an animal at the moment of slaughter; (of the face) to lighten up, to show joy; (of clothes) to become tattered’
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▪ From protSem *√HLL ‘to shout, boast’; in derived stem, ‘to praise’ – Huehnergard2011.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl alleluia, hallelujah, from Hbr hallᵊlû-yāh ‘praise Yahweh’, from hallᵊlû ‘praise’, imp.m. of hillēl ‘to praise’, akin to Ar ↗hallala.
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