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Selah

Holman Bible Dictionary

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(ssee' luh) Term of unknown meaning appearing in psalms, outside Psalms only in Habakkuk 3:1 . Scholars have advanced various unproveable theories: a pause either for silence or musical interlude, a signal for the congregation to sing, recite, or fall prostrate on the ground, a cue for the cymbals to crash, a word to be shouted by the congregation, a sign to the choir to sing a higher pitch or louder. The earliest Jewish traditions thought it meant “for ever.”

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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Selah'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hbd/​s/selah.html. 1991.
 
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