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See also:SETH (I* according to See also:Dillmann, " setting " or " slip "; See also:Septuagint, See also:Philo and New Testament, fie, but r Chron. i. 1 Ells in A ; See also:Josephus, EfjOor, Vulg. Seth) , in Gen. iv . 25, 26 (J) and v . 3-8 (P), the son of See also:Adam . At the See also:age of 105 he begat See also:Enos; he lived in all 012 years . See also:Seth was See also:born after the See also:murder of See also:Abel, and in iv . 25 a popular See also:etymology is given of his name—Adam's wife called his name Seth, " For See also:God," saith she, " hath appointed, shath, me another See also:seed instead of Abel." It is further said that after Enos was born, men began to See also:worship Yahweh . Apparently Gen. iv . 25, 26 had no See also:original connexion with J.'s See also:story of the creation, which speaks of Yahweh freely from the outset . As Enos is a See also:Hebrew word for See also:man, it is probably derived from a tradition in which Enos was the first man . An examination of the Sethite See also:genealogy, vv . 12-27, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, See also:Enoch, See also:Methuselah, See also:Lamech, shows that it is a slightly different version of the Cainite genealogy, iv . 17-18, See also:Cain (Heb .
Kayin), Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methusael, Lamech
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Seth is named in the opening genealogy of See also:Chronicles, i Chron. i
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1, and in See also:Luke's genealogy of See also:Christ, Luke iii
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38
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The Hebrew See also:text of See also:Ecclesiasticus xlix
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16 has " And See also:Shem and Seth and Enosh were visited,"—probably with divine favour; the See also:Greek version runs, " Shem and Seth were glorified among men."
In Num. See also:xxiv
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17, the Authorized Version has " the See also:children of Sheth " in a See also:list of nations; the Hebrew is the same as Seth in See also:Genesis
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The passage may perhaps indicate that Seth was originally the name of a tribe
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The " Seth " of See also:Numbers is sometimes identified with the Bedouin, who appear as Sutu in See also:Assyrian and Babylonian See also:inscriptions
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But the Revised Version takes the word sheth as a See also:common noun, " tumult," and others interpret it as "See also:pride "; cf
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If the ten patriarchs of Gen. v
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(see See also:NOAH) correspond to the ten See also:primitive See also:kings' of See also:Babylon, Seth, as second, will correspond with the Adapa of the Babylonian inscriptions, the Alaparos or Adaparos of Berosus
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The two have been compared in that Adapa was See also:demiurge and See also:Logos; and Seth figures as the See also:Messiah in later Jewish tradition.' We may also See also:note the resemblance between the names Sheth, Set, the See also:Egyptian god of See also:war, and the Hittite deity Suteh
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The latter has been supposed to be a See also:Hyksos or Semitic deity and to have some connexion with Sheth; but See also:Cheyne and See also: In the Book of Adam and See also:Eve (A.D 500-900) Seth is described as perfectly beautiful, like Adam, only more beautiful . Seth was the last See also:child born to Adam; he See also:grew in stature and strength, and began to fast and pray strenuously . A Gnostic See also:sect took the name Sethians . (W . H . |
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