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Hallelujah! The Power of the Word
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote because it was " music of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to spend some time about this issue and check out the phrase "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Interestingly enough, it 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" as well as on and also on like that. So it's a thing whose four syllables mean the same thing to many of mankind. Say the word almost around Africa plus they know how you're feeling. Hardly any words translate that way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly universal.
haleluja - I understand of not one other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Having its four open vowels, it's a gorgeous utterance to sing when sung alone or flanked by itself and repeated over and over it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I find that after I'm writing a sacred song and i'm most filled with the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill out of me again and again as the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It takes place so frequently that I need to rewrite the lyrics into short, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A man 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". That has not sat in wonder in the singing with this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from your choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For your Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
By no means comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in the song that opened the performance from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for upwards of seven years in New york.
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music in our lives
There is music in the air all over
There exists a spirit inside our lives
And also the music and the spirit are certainly one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A straightforward statement, but with the body weight and power this unique word it is certain the audiences knew exactly where i was using the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the realm of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Exactly what is a word but symbolic to have an idea. These sounds which come away from our mouths represent concepts big or small. The word "streetcar" and we understand specifically what you mean. Say the word "God" and you will have as much definitions of the word as you've listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page and in one method or another feeling and knowing the light that you are experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in reality, clamors for repetition, for to express it once just isn't enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated within the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It's 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 of us here in the world, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and it is immediately understood deeply in the soul of most.
