kabbalist

English

Alternative forms

• cabalist, qabalist

Noun

kabbalist (plural kabbalists)

1. One who studies Kabbalah.

   Synonym: mekubbal

   • 1913 [1909], Henrietta Szold, transl., The Legends of the Jews‎^[1], volume 4, translation of original by Louis Ginzberg:

     The Kabbalists in general were possessed of the power to cite Elijah, to conjure him up by means of certain formulas.

   • 2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 230:

     You know how the Kabbalists say that people's souls have a gender?

Derived terms

• cabalistic