The significance of this term was apparently not known even by ancient Biblical commentators. This can be seen by the variety of renderings given to it. The Septuagint, Symmachus, and Theodotion translate it as (, or "apart from psalm") — a word as enigmatic in Greek as is in Hebrew. The Hexapla simply transliterates it as (). Aquila,AlHaTorah Concordance: סלה Jerome, and the Targum translate it as "always", and in Jewish liturgy the word is used to mean "forever" (notably in the second to last blessing of the Amidah).
