Praise
תְּהִלָּהStrong’s H8416tehillah (te-hil-lah)
Appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tehillah is the Hebrew word usually translated “praise”, “praise his” and “praise your”. It appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?”
Meaning
- Praise, song or hymn of praisepraise, adoration, thanksgiving (paid to God) · act of general or public praise · praise-song (as title) · praise (demanded by qualities or deeds or attributes of God) · renown, fame, glory
How it's translated
- praise 14
- praise his 8
- praise your 7
- and praise 5
- praise my 5
- praises of 3
- and praise his 3
- praise of 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 30
- Isaiah 11
- Jeremiah 6
- Deuteronomy 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Zephaniah 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 10:21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
- Deuteronomy 26:19And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
- 1 Chronicles 16:35And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
- 2 Chronicles 20:22And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
- Nehemiah 9:5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Nehemiah 12:46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
All 57 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תְּהִלָּה tehillah · praise
1) praise, song or hymn of praise 1a) praise, adoration, thanksgiving (paid to God) 1b) act of general or public praise 1c) praise-song (as title) 1d) praise (demanded by qualities or deeds or attributes of God) 1e) renown, fame, glory 1e1) of Damascus, God 1e2) object of praise, possessor of renown (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “praise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRAISE, noun
s as z. [Latin pretium.]
- Commendation bestowed on a person for his personal virtues or worthy actions, on meritorious actions themselves, or on any thing valuable; approbation expressed in words or song. praise may be expressed by an individual, and in this circumstance differs from fame, renown, and celebrity, which are the expression of the approbation of numbers, or public commendation.
- The expression of gratitude for personal favors conferred; a glorifying or extolling.“He hath put a new song into my mouth, even praise to our God” Psalms 40:3
- The object, ground or reason of praise“He is thy praise and he is thy God” Deuteronomy 10:21
All definitions and other forms of “praise”
PRAISE, verb transitive
[Latin tollo, extollo; pretium.]
- To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of personal worth or actions.
- To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works.“PRAISE him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts” Psalms 148:2
- To express gratitude for personal favors.
- To do honor to; to display the excellence of.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.