Bible word study

Tehillah (Strong’s H8416): Meaning in the Bible

Tehillah (תְּהִלָּה) is the Hebrew word numbered H8416 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as laudation; specifically (concretely) a hymn. In the King James Bible it is translated praise..

• Original wordתְּהִלָּה
• Transliterationtᵉhillâh
• Pronunciationteh-hil-law'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH8416
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H1984;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tehillah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tehillah (H8416) stands behind 56 English renderings in 56 verses across 10 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (29), Isaiah (11), Jeremiah (6).

How the King James Bible renders Tehillah, by count

• praise51 of 56 (91 percent)
• praises5 of 56 (9 percent)

Three places to read Tehillah

• Exodus 15:11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
• Psalms 66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
• Isaiah 42:10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tehillah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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