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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 the post of High Priest. Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews x, 8, 6) says that “Sadoc, the High Priest, was the first High Priest of the Temple which Solomon built.”

Yet it has been supposed by some authors, in consequence of his name not being mentioned in the detailed account of the dedication, that he had died before the completion of the Temple.

The name of one of the angels of the seven planets, according to the Jewish Rabbis—the angel of the planet Jupiter.

The Hebrew word זַכָּי .

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.

A New Testament tax collector of Jericho who gave half of his possessions to charity.

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 King’s friend.” The original is Zabud ben Nathan cohen regneh hahmelek, which is literally Zabud, son of Nathan, a Priest, the friend of the King Adam Clarke says he was “the king’s chief favorite, his confidant.” Smith (Dictionary of the Bible) says: “This position, if it were an official one, was evidently distinct from that of Counselor, occupied by Ahithophel under David, and had more of the character of private friendship about it.” Kitto (Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature) says of Zabud and of his brother Azariah, that their advancement in the household of King Solomon ‘ may doubtless be ascribed not only to the young King’s respect for the venerable Prophet (their father), who had been his instructor, but to the friendship he had contracted with his sons during the course of education. The office, or rather honor, of ‘friend of the King,’ we find in all the despotic governments of the East. It gives high power, without the public responsibility which the holding of a regular office in the state necessarily imposes. It implies the possession of the utmost confidence of, and a familiar intercourse with, the monarch, to whose person ‘the friend’ at all times has access, and whose influence is therefore often far greater, even in matters of state, than that of the recognized ministers of government.”to Clay probably by Preston, and so it still remains This conception has been fully carried out in the(see Fervency and Freedom). legend of the Select Master’s Degree.

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.

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRYAND ITS KINDRED SCIENCES

by ALBERT C. MACKEY M. D.

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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.