What Is The Meaning of Hosanna?

Today is Palm Sunday and you may have at one time wondered…. “What does the word Hosanna mean?”

In short, it means: “God Save Us” and was formed by trying to sound out the Hebrew word הושיעה־נא, הושיעה נא hôšîʿâ-nā

The large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!’  John 12:12-15

As we head into passion week it is important to remember:

“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ... “ 1 Corinthians 15:1-28

For further reading check out this article from Ligonier

SDG,

-John