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Seth

Son of Adam and of Eve, was born A. M. Seth is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “put; who puts; fixed.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G4589, H8352
Hebrew
שֵׁת · Shêth
Greek
Σήθ · Sēth
Name meaning
put; who puts; fixed According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Σήθ

G4589
Transliteration
Sēth
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N-M-P
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Seth

Lexicon definition

Σήθ, ὁ (Heb. שֵׁת), indecl., Seth (Gen.4:25): Luk.3:38.† (AS)

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Seth

put; who puts; fixed

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

SETH

son of Adam and of Eve, was born A. M. 130, Gen. v, 3, 6, 10, 11. Seth, at the age of one hundred and five years, begat Enos, A. M. 235. He lived after this eight hundred and seven years, in all nine hundred and twelve years, and died A. M. 1042. Seth was the chief of “the children of God,” as the Scripture calls them, Gen. vi, 2; that is, those who before the flood preserved true religion and piety in the world, while the descendants of Cain gave themselves up to wickedness. The invention of letters and writing is by the rabbins ascribed to this patriarch.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Seth

Indexed occurrences: 9

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All Scripture references13 references

Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Seth

Meaning:
put; who puts; fixed

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Ancient Context4 items
Related UNLEARN Content4 items

Topic

SETH

Nave’s Topical Bible references for SETH.

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Dictionary

Mahalaleel

Praise of God. (1.) The son of Cainan, of the line of Seth (Gen. 5:12-17); called Maleleel (Luke 3:37). (2.) Neh. 11:4, a descendant of Perez.

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Seth

put; who puts; fixed

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Son of God

The plural, "sons of God," is used (Gen. 6:2, 4) to denote the pious descendants of Seth. In Job 1:6; 38:7 this name is applied to the angels. Hosea uses the phrase (1:10) to designate the gracious relation in which men stand to God. In the New Testament this phrase frequently denotes the relation into which we are brought to God by adoption (Rom. 8:14, 19; 2 Cor. 6:18; Gal. 4:5, 6; Phil. 2:15; 1 John 3:1, 2). It occurs thirty-seven times in the New Testament as the distinctive title of our Saviour. He does not bear this title in consequence of his miraculous birth, nor of his incarnation, his resurrection, and exaltation to the Father's right hand. This is a title of nature and not of office. The sonship of Christ denotes his equality with the Father. To call Christ the Son of God is to assert his true and proper divinity. The second Person of the Trinity, because of his eternal relation to the first Person, is the Son of God. He is the Son of God as to his divine nature, while as to his human nature he is the Son of David (Rom. 1:3, 4. Comp. Gal. 4:4; John 1:1-14; 5:18-25; 10:30-38, which prove that Christ was the Son of God before his incarnation, and that his claim to this title is a claim of equality with God). When used with reference to creatures, whether men or angels, this word is always in the plural. In the singular it is always used of the second Person of the Trinity, with the single exception of Luke 3:38, where it is used of Adam.

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