NOUN
- (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior
How To Use dybbuk In A Sentence
- Naomi sends questioning looks, keen for an update on the dybbuk saga.
- In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk is a demonic spirit that inhabits a dead person. Arizona Daily Wildcat
- According to the kabbalist concept, the dybbuk is a soul - in most cases of a sinner - that has not found a home (it is in a liminal state) either in heaven or in hell. San Francisco Sentinel
- The wife replies that her husband is mistaken, the relative has been dead for three years, and what her husband saw was a dybbuk a Yiddish word used in this context to mean “evil spirit”. A SERIOUS MAN Review – Collider.com
- Can't we call her a schmutz, nudnik, noodge (this would be my preferred option), nebbish, ganef, or dybbuk? GOP Consultant On CNN: Sometimes It's "Accurate" To Call A Woman A "Bitch"
- Dybbuk may be the composer's toughest compositional nut to crack, a gnarled web of sound tightly woven from folk music, cantorial prayer, and serial techniques.
- He himself was almost in the grip of a 'dybbuk' of documentation. San Francisco Sentinel
- The dybbuk spoke out of its hiding place, ‘I'm so glad they're going to die.’
- Ashkenazi legends are a fantastic repository of monsters - not only golems, but dybbuks and demons too.
- A dybbuk is the spirit of a dead man that enters the body of another living being and possesses it. The Killing Kind
