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Frequent word in Psalms
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selah
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, Hebrew word occurring frequently at the end of verse in Psalter. Supposed to be a liturgical direction, perhaps meaning "pause," or perhaps a musical direction to raise the voice (compare Hebrew base s-l-l "to raise, lift").
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Selah ( or with pronounced audible H; , also transliterated as selāh ) is a word used seventy-four times in the Hebrew Bible —seventy-one times in the Psalms and three times in Habakkuk . The meaning of the word is not known, though various interpretations ...
Usage examples of selah.
Our young men have never seen a horse, yet Selah rode him like a centaur to bring you home.
Day by day Shannow came to know individual villagers, especially the boy Selah and a young sloe-eyed maid named Curopet, who would sit by him and gaze at his face, saying nothing.
Karitas - noting everything - would shout for joy over an extra quarter-inch on an arm raise, offering fulsome congratulations and calling in Selah or Curopet, insisting Shannow repeat the move.
Shonal, have Selah and several of the younger men assigned to that task.
If Selah has done his work well, there should be horses around a mile away.
His eyes swept around the cave past the sleeping Selah and the two horses.
It was all Selah needed to swing the balance and he kicked his horse into a run and rode alongside the Thunder-maker.
A lion roared in the near distance and Selah could picture it leaping upon its prey, for the roar had been the blood-freezing attack cry which paralysed the victim.
The wound in the thigh was gushing blood and Selah drew his knife and cut away the trouser-leg, exposing a deep rip almost a foot long.
The Jerusalem Man lifted his head, his eyes glittering in the firelight, and Selah saw that he was about to draw his own weapons.
At first Selah had difficulty in understanding certain words, but overall the story fell into place.
Shannow had set burst into flames and Selah leapt back, dropping the stone which glowed now like a lantern.
He had gone to sleep alongside Batik and Selah in a wood by a narrow stream.
The fire had died to glowing ash and Batik and Selah were still asleep.
Amen, Amen Selah - In the the name of the holy ones, heal and guard the unborn and the little ones.