שֵׁת
Shêth · shayth
Sheth, third son of Adam
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7896 (שִׁית); put, i.e. substituted;
Sheth, third son of Adam
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Seth, Sheth.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the mark, the covenant sign
To consume, to destroy of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֵׁת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- seth3 · 33%
- and seth2 · 22%
- and to seth1 · 11%
- of seth1 · 11%
- of sheth1 · 11%
- sheth1 · 11%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.