# hosanna (הוֹשִׁיעָה נָּא)

pronounced: ho-shee-AH na


**Please save! — the plea of Psalm 118 that became a cry of praise at Yeshua’s entry into Jerusalem**

## In Scripture

> Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
> — Psalm 118:25 (The Hebrew words transliterated as hosanna)

> The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, “Hosanna  to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
> — Matthew 21:9 (Exact occurrence — Matthew preserves the Hebrew plea hoshi'a na as Hosanna while the crowd acclaims the Son of David.)

> But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,
> — Matthew 21:15 (Exact occurrence — children repeat Hosanna inside the temple after Yeshua’s works of healing.)

> Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, “Hosanna!  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
> — Mark 11:9 (Exact occurrence — Mark preserves Hosanna together with the next line of Psalm 118 in the entry procession.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/hosanna/