Z
The Hebrew letter, Zain. Twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. In Hebrew the numerical value is seven. This letter was added to the Latin from the Greek in the time of Cicero. The Greek letter is zeta.
ZABUD
An historical personage at the court of King Solomon, whose name appears in several of the advanced Degrees. In that of Select Master in the American Rite, it has been corrupted into Izabud. He is mentioned in First Kings (iv, 5) where he is described in the authorized version as being “principal officer and the [...]
ZABULON
The Greek wording of Zebulun, the tenth son of Jaeob. Delaunay (Thuileur, page 79) says that some ritualists suppose that this was the true form of the word of which Jabulum is a corruption. This is incorrect. Jabulum is a corrupt form of Giblim. Zabulon has no connection with the advanced Degrees, except that in [...]
ZACCHAI
The Hebrew word, ‘:T. The Latin words, Purus and Mundus, sometimes used as in Delauney’s French Thuileur, to explain the Hebrew expression as Purest and Heavenly. A name applied to the Deity.
ZADKIEL
The name of one of the angels of the seven planets, according to the Jewish Rabbis—the angel of the planet Jupiter.
ZADOK
A personage in some of the Ineffable Degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. In Scripture he is recorded as having been one of the two chief Priests in the time of David, Abiathar being the other. He subsequently, by order of David, anointed Solomon to be King, by whom he was rewarded with [...]
ZAPHNATH-PAANEAH
An Egyptian title given to the Patriarch Joseph by the Egyptian King under whom he was Viceroy. The name has been interpreted Revealer of secrets, and is a password in the old instructions of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
ZARATHUSTRA
The name, in the Zend language, of that great reformer in religion more commonly known to Europeans as Zoroaster, which see.
ZARRIEL
The angel that, in accordance with the Cabalistical system, governs the sun.
ZARTHAN
The Zarthan of First Kings (vii, 46) appears to be the same place as the Zeredathah of Second Chronicles (iv 17). In the Masonic lectures, the latter word is always used (see Zeredathah).
