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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. 9, 15; See also:Mark xi. 9 sq.; See also:John xii. 13), and since used in the See also:Christian See also:Church. It is also a Jewish liturgical See also:term, and was applied specifically to the " hosanna " branches carried in procession in the Feast of Booths or See also:Tabernacles, the seventh See also:day of which was called the Hosanna-day (so also in Syrian usage; cf. " See also:Palm " See also:Sunday). This festival (for which see Lev. See also:xxiii. 39 sqq.; 2 See also:Mace. x. 7; Jos. See also:Ant. xii. to. 4, xiii. 13.

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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