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Person

Seth

Also called Sheth

Mentioned in 10 verses across 4 books, first in Genesis 4:25. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 3874 BC · died c. 2962 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Most early-Genesis dates are not historically established: they are reckoned from the ages in the genealogies, and nothing outside the text confirms them.

Group

Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Parents

Siblings

Children

Enos

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Adam5 verses
Enos5 verses
God3 verses
Jacob (Israel)1 verse
Abel1 verse
Cain1 verse
Moab1 verse

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Edenborn here; scene of “Birth of Seth”
Moab1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 10 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

Genesis 4:25
And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Genesis 4:26
And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 5:4
And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:6
When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.
Genesis 5:7
And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:8
So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

Numbers

Numbers 24:17
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Luke

Luke 3:38
the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Events

Events the dataset lists Seth as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 3874 BC
Birth of SethGenesis 4:25 – Luke 3:38 · at Eden
c. 3874 BC
Lifetime of SethGenesis 5:6–8
c. 3769 BC
Birth of EnosGenesis 4:26 – 1 Chronicles 1:1
c. 2962 BC
Death of SethGenesis 5:8

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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.”