The Key of Solomon the King

Glossary

• ADONAI a commonly used Hebrew name for God, usually translated as “Lord” to suggest God’s mastery
• EL, ELOHIM, EHEIEH, ELOAH VA-DAATH … various names for God, most derived from Hebrew or pseudo-Hebrew and some possibly corruptions of “Yahweh”
• Esau the son of Isaac and brother of Jacob, who was cheated of his birthright
• five books of Moses the Torah, or the first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)
• Ioh‚ Grevis a putative Babylonian philosopher
• Jacob in the Old Testament, the son of Isaac and the father of the twelve tribes of Israel
• Joseph the favored son of Jacob in the Old Testament
• Joshua Moses’ successor as leader of the Israelites, best remembered for having stayed the course of the sun
• Kerubim … Seraphim orders of angels
• Land of Mizraim the Hebrew name for Egypt
• Methratton an angel, possibly the one spoken of in Exodus 23:21
• Moses the leader and lawgiver of the Israelites, remembered primarily for having brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai
• Noah a good man whom God saved from the flood that destroyed humankind
• oblation an offering of worship
• pass dryshod through the Red Sea … a reference to the parting of the Red Sea by Moses
• Pentacles amulets
• Roboam presumably Solomon’s son
• Sephiroth literally, “enumeration,” or, in Jewish mysticism, the ten attributes or emanations through which God reveals himself
• Seven Burning Lamps on the Candlestick of Gold … probably a reference to the book of Revelation 1:12 but also referred to in various Old Testament books
• two Tables of the Law the Ten Commandments, written on two stone tablets