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Selah
A word frequently found in the Book of Psalms, and also in Hab 3:9, Hab 3:13, about seventy-four times in all in Scripture. Its meaning is doubtful. Some interpret it as meaning “silence” or “pause;” others, “end,” “a louder strain,” “piano,” etc. The LXX. render the word by daplasma i.e., “a division.”
Named in the Bible
The first 20 of 75 verses
- 2 Kings 14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
- 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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
