Seth

Meaning: appointed; a substitute

a pre-Flood patriarch, 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.”

He was a pre-Flood patriarch, also known as Sheth.

Seth had unnamed and unumbered sons and daughters (Genesis 5:7). The key son in his partiarchal line was Enos, born when Seth was 105 years old. Seth died at the age of 912 years.

Relatives

• Father: Adam
• Mother: Eve
• Brothers: Cain, Abel (and presumably others not named or numbered, as Adam lived 930 years)
• Sisters: not named or numbered in the Bible
• Sons: included the patriarch Enos (others not named or numbered)
• Daughters: not named or numbered

ALSO SEE:

• Sheth
• What was Adam, the first man, really like? Learn the amazing facts about this unique man from whom we all descended!