There are numerous ways to selah. Although it is a small word, selah can have a big impact on our spiritual walk. Selah gives the Holy Spirit time to convict us or direct us by the Word of God.
It gives time for the Word to get past the distractions of life, the demands of our flesh, and the interruptions of our soulish man mind, will, emotions.
As we pause and consider the Word we are reading, it can benefit our spirit man and produce results in our lives. Today, consider the significance of selah and apply to all of your Bible reading and study. You will experience greater spiritual growth as a result. About Us. The Most Important Thing. Bible Reading Plan. It occurs seventy-one times in thirty-nine of the Psalms, and three times in Hab.
It is placed at the end of Ps. Again, nine of the twelve Korahite and seven LXX. Three psalms with "Selah" are headed "Miktam"; seven, "Maskil"; ten, "Shir"; twenty-six, "Mizmor"; while Habakkuk iii. That the real significance of this curious term or combination of letters was not known even by the ancient versions is evidenced by the variety of renderings given to it.
Theodotion in Ps. In five passages see Field, Hexapla on Ps. Against this explanation Baethgen "Psalmen," p.
The cogency of this objection would hold if the mark had been inserted by the original writer and not, as is most probable, by a later editor who may have expected the Psalms to be recited in succession without reference to the divisions in the Masoretic text; or if it were an indubitable fact that where in the Hebrew a psalm now ends it ended in the original. Augustin on Ps. Jacob in Stade's "Zeitschrift," xvi. Instead, it signifies that when we read Selah, we are pronouncing the word generally the same way it would have been pronounced thousands of years ago by those who originally wrote and read it.
The Bible is truly the words of God given to us, and every one of those words matters, even the words we don't fully understand and can't properly translate.
After all, we can't understand all there is to know about God, so it stands to reason that there would be words in Scripture that are beyond our full comprehension. This doesn't diminish words like Selah, but in some ways can make them a little more meaningful. Another transliterated word in the Bible that we don't fully understand is the word shigionoth and its singular form, shiggaion.
Each of these words appears in the Bible only once. The important thing for us here is that these two words appear in chapters that are written as music and, you guessed it, also include the word Selah. Shiggaion is found in the title of Psalm 7 , " A shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord".
Like the word Selah, no one knows the exact meaning of these words, but many scholars feel that shigionoth and shiggaion are clearly related to music. Some believe that it has to do with strong emotion, and the lyrical content of the songs where it is used would certainly support this idea.
Many commentators think that Selah meant 'to pause' or 'to reflect'. This could have been a request for the reader or listener to pause and think about what has just been said, or it could have been a space for voices to pause and for instruments play alone. We don't really know for certain. What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me.
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word.
Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. King James Bible kjv.
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