Seth

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Seth: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
Sheth: NET AVS NIV NASB TEV

the third son of Adam and Eve; an ancestor of Jesus
son of Adam
ancestor of a people mentioned by Balaam (IBD)

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put; who puts; fixed

Arts:

Arts Topics: Adam and Seth, and the True Cross; Portraits of Seth, Son of Adam

Greek

Strongs #4589: shy Seth

Seth = "compensation"

1) the third son of Adam and the father of Enos

4589 Seth sayth

of Hebrew origin (8352); Seth (i.e. Sheth), a patriarch:-Seth.
see HEBREW for 08352

Hebrew

Strongs #08352: tv Sheth

Seth = "compensation"

1) the 3rd son of Adam by Eve
1a) also 'Sheth'

8352 Sheth shayth

from 7896; put, i.e. substituted; Sheth, third son of
Adam:-Seth, Sheth.
see HEBREW for 07896

Strongs #08351: tv sheth

1) seat of body, buttocks Nu 24:17

8351 sheth shayth

(Numbers from 7582; tumult:-Sheth.
see HEBREW for 07582

Seth [EBD]

appointed; a substitute, the third son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4:25; 5:3). His mother gave him this name, "for God," said she, "hath appointed me [i.e., compensated me with] another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."

Sheth [EBD]

tumult. (1.) "The children of Sheth" (Num. 24:17); R.V., "the sons of tumult," which is probably the correct rendering, as there is no evidence that this is a proper name here.

(2.) The antediluvian patriarch (1 Chr. 1:1).

Seth [NAVE]

SETH
Son of Adam, Gen. 4:25, 26; 5:3, 8; 1 Chr. 1:1; Luke 3:38.
Called Sheth, 1 Chr. 1:1.

Sheth [NAVE]

SHETH
1. Num. 24:17.
2. See: Seth.

SETH [SMITH]

(compensation), (Genesis 4:25; 6:3; 1 Chronicles 1:1) the third son of Adam, and father of Enos. (B.C. 3870.) Adam handed down to Seth and his descendants the promise of mercy, faith in which became the distinction of God?s children. (Genesis 4:26)

SHETH [SMITH]

(compensation).

1. The patriarch Seth. (1 Chronicles 1:1)
2. In the Authorized Version of (Numbers 24:17) not a proper name, but there is reason to regard it as an appellative. Read instead of "the sons of Sheth." "the suns of tumult." Comp. (Jeremiah 48:45)

SETH; SHETH [ISBE]

SETH; SHETH - seth, sheth (sheth; Seth):

(1) The son born to Adam and Eve after the death of Abel (Gen 4:25 f; 5:3 ff; 1 Ch 1:1; Sirach 49:16; Lk 3:38). In Gen 4:25 the derivation of the name is given. Eve "called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed (shath) me another seed instead of Abel." In 1 Ch 1:1 the King James Version, the form is "Sheth"; elsewhere in the King James Version and in the Revised Version (British and American) throughout the form is "Seth."

(2) the King James Version "the children of Sheth," the Revised Version (British and American) "the sons of tumult." According to the King James Version rendering, the name of an unknown race mentioned in Balaam's parable (Nu 24:17).

S. F. Hunter

SHETH [ISBE]

SHETH - See SETH.