Examples of “selah” in a Sentence

interjection A word appearing at the ends of verses in the Hebrew Psalms and in Habakkuk, most often understood as a musical or liturgical direction, perhaps a pause, an instrumental interlude or an instruction to lift up the voice. Its exact sense is not known.

• The psalm closes with the line 'be still, and know that I am God. Selah.'
• Selah appears seventy-one times in the Book of Psalms.

interjection Used in modern speech and writing to mark a statement as final and worth sitting with, roughly 'let that sink in' or 'amen to that'.

• Sometimes rest is the whole job. Selah.
• She ended the eulogy with a single word: selah.

noun A female given name taken from the biblical term.

• They named their daughter Selah.