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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 as it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to take the time about this issue and look at the phrase "Hallelujah" in some depth.
Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Interestingly enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the planet and spans most languages. When translated, the word "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" and on and also on that way. Therefore it is a word whose four syllables have a similar meaning to many of mankind. Repeat the word almost any place in Africa plus they understand how you are feeling. Hardly any words translate this way. Consider even the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in the 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. 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've found that after I'm writing a sacred song and I am most full of the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill from me repeatedly as the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It takes place so frequently i must rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel tried on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ in the finale of his "Messiah". Who 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!
In no way 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 more than seven years in Nyc.
Let's begin having a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music in our lives
There is certainly music in the air everywhere
There's a spirit in our lives
As well as the music as well as the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A simple statement, however with the body weight and power this unique word you can be sure the audiences knew exactly where we were choosing the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the arena of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Exactly what is a word but a symbol for an idea. These sounds that can come out of our mouths represent concepts large or small. The word "streetcar" and we know exactly that which you mean. The word "God" and you will have as much definitions of the word because you have listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all on a single page plus a way feeling and knowing the light that you are experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to express 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 every day life is at its best, within the moment when few 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.
