<P> The word is used in Judaism as part of the Hallel prayers, and in Christian prayer, where since the earliest times it is used in various ways in liturgies, especially those of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, both of which use the form "alleluia". </P> <P> הַלְלוּיָהּ is found in 23 verses in the Book of Psalms (104--106, 111--117, 135, 145--150), but twice in Psalm 150: 6 . It starts and concludes a number of Psalms . </P> <P> The Greek transliteration ἀλληλούϊα (allēlouia) appears in the Septuagint version of these Psalms, in Tobit 13: 17 and 3 Maccabees 7: 13, and four times in Revelation 19: 1--6, the great song of praise to God for his triumph over the Whore of Babylon . It is this usage that Charles Jennens extracted for the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah . </P> <P> In the Hebrew Bible hallelujah is actually a two - word phrase, not one word . The first part, hallelu, is the second - person imperative masculine plural form of the Hebrew verb hillel . However, "hallelujah" means more than simply "praise Jah" or "praise Yah", as the word hallel in Hebrew means a joyous praise in song, to boast in God . Hallel could also refer to someone who acts madly or foolishly . </P>

In which book of the bible does the word alleluia appear 4 times