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Hallelujah! The strength of the Word

haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of the song I wrote since it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today Let me spend some time on this issue and check out the word "Hallelujah" in certain depth.

Its etymology comes 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 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 on like this. So it's a thing whose four syllables have a similar meaning to most of mankind. Repeat the word almost anywhere in Africa and so they understand how you are feeling. Very few words translate this way. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is really universal.

haleluja - I understand of few other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. With its four open vowels, it's a gorgeous utterance to sing when sung alone or encompassed by itself and repeated over and over oahu is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I've found that after 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 repeatedly because the melodies pour through me from God. Over and over again, "Hallelujah". It occurs frequently that I need to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".

A person named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder in the singing of the great gift to mankind since the same word cascaded in the choir?

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

In no way comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect inside a song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for upwards of seven years in New York City.

Let's start using a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There is music inside our lives
There is certainly music in the air all over
There's a spirit inside our lives
As well as the music and the spirit are certainly one

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

A simple statement, however with the weight and energy this phenomenal word it is certain the audiences knew in which we had been going with the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the arena of spiritual thought.

haleluja - What is a word but an emblem for an idea. These sounds which come out of our mouths represent concepts big or small. Repeat the word "streetcar" and that we know exactly what you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you will have as much definitions of that word as you've listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on a single page plus one method or another feeling and understanding the light that you will be experiencing. This is a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to say it once isn't enough. It must be repeated and repeated inside 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 life's at its best, within the moment when no other words suffice, for many people here in the world, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and it is immediately understood deeply within the soul of most.