Selah is one of the most debated terms in the Hebrew Bible. Occurring 71 times in the Psalms and 3 times in Habakkuk 3, it appears to be a liturgical or musical direction rather than a word with translatable semantic content. The Septuagint renders it diapsalma ('interlude'), while ancient interpreters variously understood it as a signal to lift one's voice, a change of melody, or a pause for instrumental interplay. Modern scholarship remains divided, though the derivation from salal ('to lift up') suggests an instruction to raise voices or instruments. Remarkably, most translations — English, Spanish, French, German — simply transliterate it as 'Selah,' acknowledging that its precise function eludes confident translation.