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Hallelujah! The effectiveness of the Word
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote since it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to spend some time on this issue and look at the word "Hallelujah" in some depth.
Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, this is a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the word "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") continues to be 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. So it is anything whose four syllables have a similar meaning to many of mankind. Repeat the word almost around Africa plus they discover how you're feeling. Not many words translate this way. Consider even the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly universal.
haleluja - I know of no other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Having its four open vowels, it is a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated again and again it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I find that after I'm writing a sacred song and i'm most full of the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill out of me repeatedly as the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It occurs so often that I have to rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise most of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel used it to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ in the finale of his "Messiah". Who has not sat in wonder on the singing with this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from the choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
By no means 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 in Nyc.
Let's start using a Hallelujah
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music in our lives
There's music in the air all over
There exists a spirit within our lives
And also the music as well as the spirit are certainly one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A simple statement, however with the weight and power of this unique word you can be certain the audiences knew exactly where i was choosing the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the arena of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but an emblem to have an idea. These sounds that come from our mouths represent concepts big or small. The word "streetcar" so we understand specifically everything you mean. Say the word "God" you'll also find as numerous definitions of the word because you have listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on the same page as well as in some way feeling and understanding the light that you will be experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to express it once is not enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated within the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It is the penultimate word inside the human language in praise of God.
When every day life is at its best, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for most people here on this planet, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and it is immediately understood deeply inside the soul of all.
