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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cabbala

1520s, from Medieval Latin cabbala, from Mishnaic Hebrew qabbalah "reception, received lore, tradition," especially "tradition of mystical interpretation of the Old Testament," from qibbel "to receive, admit, accept." Compare Arabic qabala "he received, accepted."

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cabbala

n. (alternative spelling of Kabballah English)

WordNet
cabbala
  1. n: an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret [syn: cabala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah]

  2. an esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries [syn: Kabbalah, Kabbala, Kabala, Cabbalah, Cabala, Qabbalah, Qabbala]

Usage examples of "cabbala".

The one true magical system we do have is the Jewish cabbala, kept alive by a people of enormous courage in the face of slander and persecution.

The following is a passage of a letter from Lord Kensington, ambassador in France, to the duke of Buckingham Cabbala p.

The correspondents to whom his letters were addressed were not persons specially interested in religion or chemistry or the cabbala, and, of all men, Goethe was least likely to be obsessed by any set of ideas to the exclusion of all others.

There is a kind of Cabbala Alphabetica which the investigators of the numerals in words would do well to take up.

Ascommentaries too on these, the philosophy of the Hebrews must be enquired into, their Mishna, their Gemara, Cabbala, Jezirah, Sohar, Cosri, and their Talmud must be examined and understood, in order to do them full justice.