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Seth
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seth (put; who puts; fixed, compensation, appointed; a substitute)
RELATED: Abel, Adam, Cain, Eve |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
appointed; a substitute, The third son of Adam and Eve
( Genesis
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."
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
put; who puts; fixed
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(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 )
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
seth, sheth (sheth; Seth):
(1) The son born to Adam and Eve after the death of Abel (Genesis
4:25 ; 5:3
; 1
Chronicles 1:1 ; Sirach 49:16 ; Luke
3:38). In Genesis
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
Chronicles 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 (Numbers
24:17).
S. F. Hunter
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