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Hallelujah! The strength of the phrase
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote as it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today Let me take a moment with this issue and check out the word "Hallelujah" in a few depth.
Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the word "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") remains the same: In Spanish it's "Aleluya", in Finnish and German it's "Haleluja", in French it's "Alleluia", in Estonian it's "Haleluuja", in Icelandic it's Halleluja, in Slovak it's "Aleluia" and also on and also on like that. Therefore it is a word whose four syllables mean the same thing to many of mankind. Say the word almost anywhere in Africa and they understand how you feel. Very few words translate this way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is actually universal.
haleluja - I am aware of no other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. With its four open vowels, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated over and over it is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I find that whenever I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled up with the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill away from me again and again since the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It takes place so often i have to rewrite the lyrics into short, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel used it to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder at the singing with this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from the choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For your Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Certainly not comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect inside a song that opened the performance of The Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold-out audiences for over seven years within New York City.
Let's move on using a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music in our lives
There's music in mid-air all around us
There's a spirit inside our lives
As well as the music and the spirit are one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, but with the weight and energy this amazing word you can be certain the audiences knew in which i was going with the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Just what word but a symbol for an idea. These sounds that can come out of our mouths represent concepts large or small. Repeat the word "streetcar" so we understand specifically that which you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you'll have as numerous definitions of the word as you have listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on a single page plus some way feeling and having the light that you're experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to say it once isn't enough. It should be repeated and repeated inside the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word in the human language in praise of God.
When life's at its best, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here in the world, out pops the word "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply within the soul of.
