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Abraham (אברהם) has a gematria value of 248, and the word "Abraham" appears in 216 Bible verses (KJV). Reflecting these numbers, the word "praise" appears 248 times in 216 Bible verses (KJV). Not surprisingly, 132 of these 216 "praise" verses appear in the Book of Psalms, a collection of poetic prayers. The Hebrew name for the book is Tehilim (תהלים) which means "songs of praise".

Hallelujah is the most sublime expression of God's praise. Translated in the KJV as "Praise ye the LORD", Hallelujah (הַֽלְלוּ־יָֽהּ) only appears in the Book of Psalms. Curiously, all 24 occurrences of this word appear in the last third of the book commencing with Psa 104:35 which, according to Rav Kook, provides the clue to the puzzle. It must be noted that the last third of the book corresponds with the Messianic age:

“The world will exist for six thousand years: two millennia of void (‘tohu’); Two millennia of Torah; and then two millennia of the age of Moshiach.” Talmud, Tractate Avodah Zarah [9a]

In the Tanakh, Hallelujah is only once written as a single word (Psa 106:1). This is the first Psalm to open with Hallelujah, where the gematria value of the phrase "for his mercy endureth forever" (כי לעולם חסדו) is the same as that for θεος (Theos, translated as "God") in the Greek New Testament. Elsewhere, it is a combination of two words הַֽלְלוּ ("praise") and יָֽהּ (Yahh, meaning "the LORD"). The word combination הַֽלְלוּ־יָֽהּ (Hallelujah) appear 23 times in the Bible. Beginning from position 23 in pi are the three digits 433, which is the 9th star number. On either side are the numbers 26 (the gematria value of the Tetragrammaton) and 832,which is the gematria value of ארץ ישראל (Eretz Yisrael, meaning "the land of Israel").