H5542: סֶלָה
çelâh · pronounced seh'-law · “Selah”
Definition
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV translates it as: Selah.
Word origin: from H5541 (סָלָה);
Extended definition
1a) Selah
1a1) a technical musical term probably showing accentuation, pause, interruption
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5542 is translated
- selah ×74
Bible verses with H5542 (çelâh)
Çelâh appears in 74 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Psalms 3:2
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
- Psalms 3:4
I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Psalms 3:8
Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
- Psalms 4:2
O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
- Psalms 7:5
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
- Psalms 9:16
The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
- Psalms 9:20
Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
- Psalms 20:3
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
- Psalms 21:2
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
- Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
- Psalms 24:10
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
- Psalms 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 32:5
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
- Psalms 32:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 44:8
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
- Psalms 46:3
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- Psalms 46:7
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Psalms 46:11
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Psalms 47:4
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
- Psalms 48:8
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
- Psalms 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
- Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
All 74 references
- Psalms 50:6
- Psalms 52:3
- Psalms 52:5
- Psalms 54:3
- Psalms 55:7
- Psalms 55:19
- Psalms 57:3
- Psalms 57:6
- Psalms 59:5
- Psalms 59:13
- Psalms 60:4
- Psalms 61:4
- Psalms 62:4
- Psalms 62:8
- Psalms 66:4
- Psalms 66:7
- Psalms 66:15
- Psalms 67:1
- Psalms 67:4
- Psalms 68:7
- Psalms 68:19
- Psalms 68:32
- Psalms 75:3
- Psalms 76:3
- Psalms 76:9
- Psalms 77:3
- Psalms 77:9
- Psalms 77:15
- Psalms 81:7
- Psalms 82:2
- Psalms 83:8
- Psalms 84:4
- Psalms 84:8
- Psalms 85:2
- Psalms 87:3
- Psalms 87:6
- Psalms 88:7
- Psalms 88:10
- Psalms 89:4
- Psalms 89:37
- Psalms 89:45
- Psalms 89:48
- Psalms 140:3
- Psalms 140:5
- Psalms 140:8
- Psalms 143:6
- Habakkuk 3:3
- Habakkuk 3:9
- Habakkuk 3:13