Definition of dybbuk in English:
dybbuk
nounPlural dybbukim, Plural dybbuks ˈdɪbʊkˈdibək
(in Jewish folklore) a malevolent wandering spirit that enters and possesses the body of a living person until exorcised.
Example sentencesExamples
- The dybbuk spoke out of its hiding place, ‘I'm so glad they're going to die.’
- Not only his dybbuks and demons but the people themselves belonged not simply to another continent but to another cosmos, a distant century.
- Ashkenazi legends are a fantastic repository of monsters - not only golems, but dybbuks and demons too.
- The Jewish dybbuk is the malevolent spirit of a dead person which enters a living one and controls it.
Origin
From Yiddish dibek, from Hebrew dibbūq, from dāḇaq 'cling'.