Jahbulon

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A symbolic or ceremonial name for God associated by some writers with certain Masonic rites or passwords.

Origin

• Various etymologies of this word are found; as a mystic word it may be deliberately obscure, though the first syllable is invariably given as being Hebrew '' (Yah) ‘Yahweh’. Some theories often cited:
• First, that it is a compound of ' (Yah) ‘Yahweh’ + ' (bul) ‘on high, in heaven’ + '' (’on) ‘strength’. Reference: The Rev’d Canon Richard Tydeman, An Address to Grand Chapter (of England), 13th November 1985.
• Second, that it may have been a blend of Hebrew ' (Yah) ‘Yahweh’ + ' (Zəbūlūn) ‘Zebulun or Zabulon, son of Jacob’.
• Third, it is explained as being a combination of Hebrew ' (Yah) ‘Yahweh’ + ' (bul) ‘Baal’, + '' (’On) ‘On’ (a city of Egypt, explained as a reference to Osiris, perhaps as a misunderstanding of Genesis 46:20).
• Stephen Knight in The Brotherhood and Martin Short in Inside the Brotherhood argued that Jahbulon is a trinity consisting of Yahweh, God of the Jews, Baal, God of the Phoenicians and Celts, and Osiris, an Egyptian God.