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Hallelujah! The strength of the Word

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 spend some time on this issue and look at the word "Hallelujah" in a few depth.

Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the planet 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" as well as on and also on like this. So it's a word whose four syllables mean the same thing to the majority of of mankind. The word almost around Africa plus they know how you are feeling. Hardly any words translate this way. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is actually universal.

haleluja - I understand of no other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Using its four open vowels, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated again and again it is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I have found that when I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill away from me over and over because the melodies pour through me from God. Over and over again, "Hallelujah". It takes place so often which i must rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise most of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".

A guy named George Fredric Handel tried 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 of the great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from your choir?

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the 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 from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for upwards of seven years within New york.

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

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There is music within our lives
There is certainly music up all over
There's a spirit within our lives
And the music as well as the spirit are one

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

A straightforward statement, however with the weight and energy this unique word you can be certain the audiences knew wherever we were choosing the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the whole world of spiritual thought.

haleluja - Just what word but symbolic to have an idea. These sounds that can come out of our mouths represent concepts big or small. The word "streetcar" and that we understand specifically that which you mean. Say the word "God" and you'll have as much definitions of this word as you have listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page as well as in some way feeling and understanding the light that you're experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, actually, clamors for repetition, for to express it once isn't enough. It must be repeated and repeated inside the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word within the human language in praise of God.

When life is at its best, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here on the earth, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply in the soul of all.