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HOSANNA
, the cry of praise or See also:adoration shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into See also:Jerusalem (Matt. xxi
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9, 15; See also:Mark xi
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9 sq.; See also: 15; and the Talmudic tractate Sukkah) already suggested a Dionysiac celebration to See also:Plutarch (Symp. iv . 6), and was associated with a ceremonial See also:drawing of See also:water which, it was believed, secured fertilizing rains in the following See also:year; the See also:penalty for See also:abstinence was drought (cf . Zech. xiv . 16 seq.) . The See also:evidence (see further Ency . Bib. cols . 3354 . 488o seq.; I . See also:Levy, Rev. See also:des Et. juives, 1901, pp . 192 sqq.) points to See also:rites of nature-See also:worship, and it is possible that in these the term Hosanna had some other application . The old See also:interpretation " See also:save, now ! " which may be a popular See also:etymology, is based on Ps. cxviii . 25 (Heb. hoshi ah-nna), but this does not explain the occurrence of the word in the Gospels, a complicated problem, on which see the articles of J . H . See also:Thayer in See also:Hastings's See also:Diet . Bib., and more especially T . K . See also:Cheyne, Ency . Bib. s.v . |
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