selah

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Membership was eventually made compulsory and all boys had to report to a neighborhood office to have his racial background checked and be registered for membership. at the end of many of its Psalms, in Hebrew the word selah means think on this awhile.

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  1. interjection Used to conclude a verse in the Psalms.

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  • JR Peck: selah my dad used to say that all the time. i don't think he used it just the way it is meant in the ... —  Neptunus Lex
  • The trailer is below, and you can download the whole thing Rebbe Meir: Amen, amen … selah. —  Danya Ruttenberg
  • Membership was eventually made compulsory and all boys had to report to a neighborhood office to have his racial background checked and be registered for membership. at the end of many of its Psalms, in Hebrew the word selah means think on this awhile. —  WordPress.com News
  • "The Alstine fortune shall yet be mine-- selah CHAPTER XIX STRANGE VISITORS THAT MURDER MYSTERY After some weeks of uncertainty the mystery surrounding the murder of Victoria Vane, a beautiful young girl of Ridgewood, seems likely to be closed up. —  Five Thousand Dollars Reward
  • Rebbe Meir: Amen, amen … selah. —  Danya Ruttenberg
 

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