Hosanna, save, we beseech! The exclamation with which Christ was greeted at his last entry into Jerusalem. Matthew 21:9. It is a Hebrew phrase, known in earlier times and taken from Psalms 118:25, which was recited as a part of the Great Hallel, Psalms 1:113-9, Psalms 1:114-8, Psalms 1:115-18, Psalms 1:116-19, Psalms 1:117-2, Psalms 1:118-29, at the feast of tabernacles, and which was therefore familiar to the Jews.