Sheth
שֵׁתStrong’s H8352shet
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shet is the Hebrew word usually translated “seth” and “sheth”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.”
Meaning
- Sheth - means "buttock"
How it's translated
- seth 7
- and to seth 1
- sheth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 7
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Genesis 5:4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:6And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
- Genesis 5:7And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:8And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁת shet · Sheth
Sheth - means "buttock" a variant of Seth, a man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.25; son of: Adam (H0121) and Eve (H2332); brother of: Cain (H7014B) and Abel (H1893); father of: Enosh (H0583); also called Sheth (Ketiv: buttock) at Num.24.17; Another name of shet (שֵׁת "Seth" H8352) Nu 24:17
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “she” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHE, pronoun
personal of the feminine gender. [She is perhaps the Heb. a woman or wife. Latin quoe.]
- A pronoun which is a substitute for the name of a female, and of the feminine gender; the word which refers to a female mentioned in the preceding or following part of a sentence or discourse.“Then denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid” Genesis 18:15
- She is sometimes used as a noun for waman or female, and in the plural; but in contempt or in ludicrous language.
- She is also used in composition for female, representing sex; as a she-bear; a she-cat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.