Hosanna Meaning: What does hosanna in the Bible mean?

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.

The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels.

Palm Sunday marks the first day of Holy Week.

In most churches, Palm Sunday is celebrated by the blessing and distribution of palm branches (or the branches of other native trees), representing the palm branches which the crowd scattered in front of Christ as he rode into Jerusalem; these palms are sometimes woven into crosses.

The Sunday was often named after these substitute trees, as in Yew Sunday, or by the general term Branch Sunday.

In Syriac Christianity it is often called as Oshana Sunday or Hosanna Sunday based on the biblical words uttered by the crowd while Jesus entered Jerusalem.

What does hosanna in the Bible mean?

Usually, hosannas praise God.

The noun hosanna referring to a cry of praise can claim a long pedigree in English, with it first appearing in the 12th century.

Hosanna is from a Biblical Hebrew phrase meaning “Pray, save us.”

Hosanna made stops in Greek and Latin before arriving in English in the earliest translations of the Bible.