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הָלַל

to praise

‘to praise’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H1984 Strong's Hebrew
hâlal Transliteration
/haw-lal'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 165 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Piel
An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘praise man or woman’
Pual
The passive counterpart of the Piel. Here: ‘human subj.’
Hithpael
The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘only Inf. sf.’
Hithpolel
The reflexive counterpart of the Polel.
Hiphil
The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).

Form

Imperative
A direct command (“write!”).
Infinitive Construct
A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Participle Passive
A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Jussive
A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
Participle Active
A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Cohortative
A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Sequential Perfect
A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).

State

Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Construct
A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).

Person

2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).

Gender

Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Singular
One.

58 verses where H1984 appears in the Piel stem in the Book of Psalms. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

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