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Hallelujah! The Power of the Word
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote since it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to take the time on this issue and look at the word "Hallelujah" in a few depth.
Its etymology comes from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Interestingly enough, it is a word that circumnavigates the planet 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" and also on as well as on like that. So it is anything whose four syllables have a similar meaning to most of mankind. Say the word almost around Africa and so they know how you feel. Very few words translate this way. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is really 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. With its four open vowels, it is a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or encompassed by itself and repeated over and over it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I've found that when I'm writing a sacred song and I am most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill from me again and again since the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It occurs so often i must rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing nothing but "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". Who has not sat in wonder at the singing with this great gift to mankind since the same word cascaded from the 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 inside a song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for over seven years here in New york.
Let's start having a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music in our lives
There is music in mid-air all over
There is a spirit in our lives
As well as the music as well as the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, however with the body weight and energy this phenomenal word you can be sure the audiences knew wherever we had been choosing the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Just what word but symbolic with an idea. These sounds that come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. Say the word "streetcar" and that we know precisely everything you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you will have as many definitions of that word as you've listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on the same page plus one method or another feeling and having the light that you are 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 within the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word inside the human language in praise of God.
When life is at its best, in the moment when few other words suffice, for many people here on this planet, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply within the soul of.
