different between exclamation vs selah

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamatio, from ex (“out”) + clamare (“I cry out”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kskl??me??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

exclamation (countable and uncountable, plural exclamations)

1. A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
2. A word expressing outcry; an interjection
3. (linguistics) A clause type used to make an exclamatory statement: What a mess they made!; How stupid I was!
4. The sign "!" by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked.

Synonyms

• (punctuation “!”): exclamation mark, exclamation point

Derived terms

• exclamation mark, exclamation point

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• exclamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exclamation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Coatlán Mixe

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclamatio, exclamationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.skla.ma.sj??/

Noun

exclamation f (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

Derived terms

• point d'exclamation

Related terms

• exclamer

Further reading

• “exclamation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew ?????? (sél?), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?l?/
• Hyphenation: se?lah

Interjection

selah

1. (biblical) A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat.
   • LORD, how are they increased that trouble mee: many are they that ri?e vp again?t me. / Many there bee which ?ay of my ?oule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah. / But thou, O LORD, art a ?heild for me; my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head. / I cryed vnto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of holy hill. Selah.

   • 1863 December 4, “Art. III. – The Meaning and Use of ????? (Selah.)”, Robert J[efferson] Breckinridge [et al.], editors, The Danville Quarterly Review, volume IV, number II, Danville, Ky.; Cincinnati, Oh.: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 25 West Fourth Street, published June 1864, OCLC 4609985, page 240:

     […] Ps[alm] xlvi has three Selahs (vs. 3, 7, 11,) and likewise a repetition in vs. 7, 11, which, as we have already fully illustrated, Selah greatly intensifies. In Ps. xlix there are two Selahs (vs. 13, 15,) indicating the refrain, "Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:" and, also, a repetition, (with some variation,) of the following words, "Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Vs. 12, 20.

Noun

selah (plural selahs)

1. (Christianity) A pause or rest of a contemplative nature.

Alternative forms

• Selah

Further reading

• selah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, hales, halse, heals, leash, shale, sheal