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Help[Opinions] Re: Selah
in reply to a message by Higuma Kanora
I can't really get into it on account of we have no idea what Selah means. Like, basically it's just like if you picked some word off the notations in sheet music, like 'legato' or something, only Italian was a dead language and this was the only context we saw legato in anymore and weren't sure why it was there, but it's probably related to music right? Say what you will about Kim K naming her kid Psalm, at least we know what a psalm is.
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it's not so much that it has no meaning, as much it's an untranslateable word with multiple interpretations that many religious scholars have written about. which in itself gives it meaning and significance. it's nothing like Kayla or a random cutesy sounding surname.
also Hebrew isn't a dead language...
also Hebrew isn't a dead language...
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Hm? I don't really see the problem as long as it doesn't have an obviously negative meaning. I'm in the camp where I don't particularly mind if a name has no meaning or is made-up as long as I like the sound of it.
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