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Definition of Cabala
1. Noun. An esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret.
Generic synonyms: Arcanum, Secret
Derivative terms: Cabalistic, Kabbalistic, Qabalistic
2. Noun. An esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries.
Generic synonyms: Theosophy
Category relationships: Judaism
Definition of Cabala
1. n. A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediæval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.
Definition of Cabala
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Kaballah) ¹
2. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Kabballah) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cabala
1. an occult or secret doctrine [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabala
Literary usage of Cabala
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The term Cabala designates the esoteric doctrines of Judaism. ... The Cabala
originated at a period when a crassly anthropomorphic concept of God prevailed ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"And that this cabala was thus understood by some of the ancient Pagan ...
Wherefore we conclude, that that other Atheistic cabala, or Aristophanic tradition ..."
3. Sephardim: Or, The History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal by James Finn (1841)
"ON THE Cabala AND TALMUD. THE last chapter refers to studies which the Jews shared
in common with the rest of the world. But the Cabala and Talmud pertain ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... that the opinion of monarchy, or one self-existent Deity, the original of all
things, was an essential part of the Orphic theology or cabala ; we shall ..."
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