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Hosanna [Heb.,=save now; Psalm 118], an intensified imperative, a cry, addressed to God, particularly used in the Feast of Tabernacles, when prayers for rain were offered. In the New Testament the crowd shouted it when Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. It is used as an acclamation in Christian worship, e.g., in the Sanctus .

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Hosanna. The Greek form of the Hebrew petition ‘Save, we beseech Thee’. It was used by the multitudes when they greeted the Lord on His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and was early introduced into the Christian liturgy.

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Hosanna (Gk., from Heb., hoshana, ‘save, we beseech you’). An acclamation used in Christian worship from an early time (Didache 10. 6).

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