different between selah vs solah

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

English

Alternative forms

• shola
• sola

Etymology

From Urdu ???? (sol?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??l?/

Noun

solah (countable and uncountable, plural solahs)

1. A tall plant growing in the swamps of India; its pith is used to make hats.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 93:

     he descended in a new khaki suit—tight fitting—of a delicate olive-green; a peacock-blue tie, white collar, and a snowy white solah helmet.

Anagrams

• HALOs, LOHAS, Sohal, halos, shoal, shola