Margert72
De BISAWiki
Hallelujah! The strength of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of the song I wrote since it was " an audio lesson of largely just Hallelujahs". Today Let me take the time on this issue and look at the word "Hallelujah" in some depth.
Its etymology comes from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Interestingly enough, this is a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the phrase "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" and also on and also on like this. So it is a thing whose four syllables mean the same thing to most of mankind. The word almost around Africa and so they know how you're feeling. Hardly any words translate like that. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly universal.
haleluja - I know 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, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing so 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 whenever I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the words that spill out of me over and over as the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It occurs so frequently i must rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise most of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A man named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ in the finale of his "Messiah". That has not sat in wonder at the singing of the 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!
Certainly not comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in a song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for over seven years here in Nyc.
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There's music within our lives
There's music in mid-air all over
There is a spirit inside our lives
As well as the music and the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, but with the weight and energy this phenomenal word you can be certain the audiences knew exactly where we had been going with the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Exactly what is a word but an emblem for an idea. These sounds which come out of our mouths represent concepts small or large. The word "streetcar" so we know precisely everything you mean. Say the word "God" you'll also find as much definitions of this word because you have listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all on the same page as well as in a way feeling and having the light that you are experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in reality, clamors for repetition, for to say it once is not enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated inside 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 life's at its best, inside the moment when not one other words suffice, for most people here on the earth, out pops the word "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply in the soul of most.
