His passing, at 82 years old, marked the first time “Hallelujah” appeared in the Billboard Hot 100 song charts. And after Cohen’s death in November 2016, the song experienced another resurgence. Years after its initial release, “Hallelujah” was covered prominently by Cale, Buckley, Wainwright, and more (see below).
It’s because of these themes that the song has since become timeless. Cohen, who is considered one of music’s greatest poets, writes expertly and exquisitely about the human condition, about love and sadness and remorse and hope in the track. Of course, it’s important to start the conversation about “Hallelujah” with its lyrics. The word is preserved as a liturgical interjection by the Christian church generally.The story of the song’s fame and impact has as much to do with Cohen as it does with several other notable musicians and performers, namely John Cale, Jeff Buckley, and Rufus Wainwright. In the New Testament Hallelujah is found as part of the song of the heavenly host ( Re 19:1 ). These three groups were probably taken from an older collection of psalms like the group Psalms 120-134. In all other cases, ( Pss 115 116 117) Hallelujah seems to be an integral part of the psalms. In the third group, Hallelujah is found both at the close and at the beginning of the psalms. In the second group, Hallelujah is found at the beginning (113:9 is an integral part of the psalm depending on the adjective "joyful").
(106:1 is an integral part of the psalm). In the first group, Hallelujah is found at the close of the psalm as a lit. In some Psalms, Hallelujah is an integral part of the song ( Ps 135:3), while in others it simply serves as a liturgical interjection found either at the beginning ( Ps 111) or at the close ( Ps 104) of the psalms or both ( Ps 146). Even if the Jews perhaps had become accustomed to use it as a compound, it is never written as such in the text.
Hal-e-loo'-ya (halela-yah, "praise ye Yah" allelouia): The word is not a compound, like many of the Hebrew words which are composed of the abbreviated form of "Yahweh" and some other word, but has become a compound word in the Greek and other languages.
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