Footnote to the footnote. Apologies as my reference was to the KJV of the Bible. The primitive Hebrew root "halal" meant to be clear of sound or tone or even of color according to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (it been many years since I studied Hebrew so I am relying heavily on Strong's). It can also mean to rave, to be wild, to give glory or be beside one's self or to shine. It is used throughout Scripture and when coupled with the clipped version of Yahweh, Yahh it means praise of Yahh or Jah. Yah or -iah often occurs on ends of names denoting some aspect, relationship or deed of God in that person's life. Same with -el which is short for Elohim a more generic term for God meaning "The Strong One". So you get names like Isaiah (Salvation of Yahweh) and Ezekiel (Whom God Will Strengthen). Why the translators of Ps 113 KJV did not use "Hallelujah" when they might have I can only guess (King James is purported to have used 72 anonymous translators as did the Alexandrian Jews (as tradition would have it) in translating the Hebrew to the Greek in the version known as the Septuagint (the Seventy-two[but abbreviate The LXX erroneously as LXX = 70]). This, of course, has to be one of the worst cases of thread drift ever but what the hey! I wonder If Mr. Cohen went to such lengths to analyze the word he chose for that song?