Every general reference work on the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite glosses Kadosh as Hebrew for holy or set apart, a translation so consistently published that it functions as the degree's most widely known single fact outside the Rite's own membership, more so than any narrative or symbolic detail associated with the Council of Kadosh's ceremonial content.
Published Scottish Rite literature situates the Council of Kadosh's degrees, culminating in this one, within the Rite's broader chivalric register, a thematic strand it shares with Knight of the Rose Croix beneath it and the historical romance of medieval knightly orders more generally, expressed through the Rite's own distinct symbolism.
As with the Rite's other degrees, what reaches general publication is the name's meaning, the degree's structural position between the eighteenth and thirty second degrees, and its thematic register, not the specific ceremonial content a Council of Kadosh transmits only to its own members.
General reference works on the Scottish Rite treat the Hebrew derivation as significant enough to note in almost every account of the degree, a level of consistent published attention few other single degree names in the Rite's twenty nine degree sequence receive.