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# שֵׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8351

**Seth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Seth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8351/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8351/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. third son of Adam; Gn 4:25 (where expl. from √ שִׁית), v 26 5:3, 4, 6, 7, 8; 1 Ch 1:1; Σηθ.—In כָּל־בְּנֵי־שֵׁת Nu 24:17 (poem in J), read prob. שֵׁאת tumult (cf. La 3:47), or שְׂאֵת (v. sub נשׂא), cf. Gray.—ii. שֵׁת, v. II. שׁתה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Sheth (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.17/#tree)

אֶרְאֶ֙נּוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א עַתָּ֔ה אֲשׁוּרֶ֖נּוּ וְלֹ֣א קָר֑וֹב דָּרַ֨ךְ כּוֹכָ֜ב מִֽיַּעֲקֹ֗ב וְקָ֥ם שֵׁ֙בֶט֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּמָחַץ֙ פַּאֲתֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב וְקַרְקַ֖ר כָּל־בְּנֵי־שֵֽׁת׃

*Word for word:* I see.him and not now I observe.him and not near it.will.march.forth a.star from Jacob and it.will.arise a.scepter from Israel and it.will.smash the.corners of.Moab and it.will.destroy all the.descendants of.Sheth

*JPS 1917:* I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Seth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8351.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8351/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).