HOSAH (ho'sah), (Heb. 71:-;11, kho-saw', hopeful).
1. A city of Asher, at a point on the boundary line where it turned from the direction of Tyre toward Achzib (Josh. xix:29); possibly the modern village of el Ghazieh or el Ezziyah, a little south of Zidon.
2. A Levitical door-keeper of the temple, whose station was by the 'gate of Shallecheth,' Chrun. xvi:38; xxvi:to, It, t6. (B. C. about 988).
HOSANNA (116-.zan'ni), (Gr. Znraiwd, ho-san-nah', from Heb. 8771.1,•";71, ho-she-ah'naw, save now).
A form of acclamatory blessing or wishing well, which signifies, Save now I Succor now I Be TIOW propitious! It occurs in Matt. xxi :9 (also Mark xi :9, to; John xii :13)—'Hosanna to the Son of David ; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord ; Hosanna in the highest.' This was on the occasion of our Savior's public entry into Jerusalem, and fairly construed would mean, 'Lord, preserve this Son of David; heap favors and blessings on him!' It is further to be ob served that Hosanna was a customary form of acclamation at the Feast of the Tabernacles. This
feast was celebrated in September, just before the commencement of the civil year ; on which oc casion the people carricd in their hands bundles of boughs of pahns, myrtles, etc. (Joseph. Antlq. xiii, 13, 6; iii, to, 4). They then repeated the 25th and 26th verses of Ps. cxviii, which com mence with the word Hosanna, and from this circumstance they gave the boughs, and the prayers, and the feast itself, the name of Hosanna. They observed the saine forms also at the Enca nia, that is, the Feast of the reconsecration of the Temple, as instituted by Judas Maccabteus ( t Nlacc. x :6, 7; 2 Mace. xiii :51; Rev. vii :9) and the Passover. And as they celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles with great joy and gladness, in like manner, on this occasion, did they hail the coming of the Messiah, whose advent they be lieved to be represented in all the feasts.