Antonio968
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Hallelujah! The strength of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote since it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to take the time with this issue and check out the term "Hallelujah" in some depth.
Its etymology comes from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Interestingly enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the globe and spans most languages. When translated, the phrase "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" as well as on and also on like that. So it's a word whose four syllables have a similar meaning to most of mankind. Repeat the word almost any place in Africa and so they know how you feel. Hardly any words translate that way. Consider even the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is really universal.
haleluja - I know 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 so 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 after I'm writing a sacred song and I am most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the words that spill out of me repeatedly as the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It takes place frequently that I must rewrite the lyrics into short, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".
A guy named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute to the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder on the singing of 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!
In no way comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in a song that opened the performance from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for over seven years within New york.
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music in our lives
There's music up all around us
There's a spirit in our lives
As well as the music and the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, though the weight and power this phenomenal word it is certain the audiences knew in which we were going with the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the realm of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but symbolic with an idea. These sounds which come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. Say the word "streetcar" so we know precisely what you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you will have as numerous definitions of that word as you've listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all on a single page as well as in one method or another feeling and knowing the light that you are experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to say it once is not enough. It must be repeated and repeated inside the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It's the penultimate word in the human language in praise of God.
When 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 within the soul of.
