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SETH
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
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.”
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Smith's Bible Dictionary · 1863
(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)
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Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
SETH (compensation), son of Adam and Eve, was born when Adam was one hundred and thirty years old, and lived nine hundred and twelve years. Gen 5:3 Tradition ascribes to Seth the invention of letters.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
put; who puts; fixed
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
SETH (compensation), son of Adam and Eve, was born when Adam was one hundred and thirty years old, and lived nine hundred and twelve years. Gen 5:3
Tradition ascribes to Seth the invention of letters.