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title: שֵׁת — Seth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׁת (8352), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Seth. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׁת

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«שֵׁת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Seth** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 8352 · **BDB:** שֵׁת

### Glosses

Seth (7); of.Seth (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Seth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8352/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8352/#m2)

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**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.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׁת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8352/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.1/)

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אָדָ֥ם שֵׁ֖ת אֱנֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* Adam Seth Enosh

*JPS 1917:* ADAM, SETH, Enosh;

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[Genesis 5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.6/)

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וַֽיְחִי־שֵׁ֕ת חָמֵ֥שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים וּמְאַ֣ת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־אֱנֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Seth five years and one.hundred year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Enosh

*JPS 1917:* And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.

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