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Seth

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Seth ♂ Biblical name (from a Hebrew word meaning ‘appointed, placed’), borne by the third son of Adam, who was born after the murder of Abel (Genesis 4:25, ‘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’). It is recorded in England from the 1400s and was popular among the Puritans (particularly for children born after the death of an elder sibling). By the 20th century it had become rare. It was used for the darkly passionate rural character Seth Starkadder in Stella Gibbons's satirical novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932), and has recently enjoyed a revival.

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Seth

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Seth in the Bible, son of Adam and Eve, father of Enosh. In the chronology in the Gospel of St. Luke, Seth is an ancestor of Jesus. The Nag Hammadi codices preserve revelatory discourses ascribed to or allegedly emanating from Seth. The Second Treatise of Seth emphasizes the docetic nature of the Passion of Jesus. The Three Steles of Seth are liturgical pieces.

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Seth

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

Seth The third son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4: 25) and regarded in the narrative as heralding a more respectable line than that of the criminal Cain. With the birth of Seth people began the custom of calling on the name of Yahweh (Gen. 4: 26), and it is through the line of Seth that the human race was propagated (Gen. 5: 7).

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W. R. F. BROWNING. "Seth." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Seth1 in Egyptian mythology, an evil god who murdered his brother Osiris and wounded Osiris's son Horus. Seth is represented as having the head of an animal with a long pointed snout.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Seth." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Seth

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

Seth Egyptian god. Although a beneficent god in predynastic Egypt, Seth became associated with darkness and was later identified as a god of evil and the antagonist of Horus.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Seth2 in the Bible, the son of Adam who according to Genesis was the father of Noah and thus of the existing race of humankind.

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A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Seth ♂ (Indian) Of uncertain origin, possibly from Sanskrit setu ‘bridge’ or sveta ‘white’.

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Seth in Egyptian religion: see Set .

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Seth

Seth •Beth, breath, death, Jerez, Macbeth, Seth •megadeath • Japheth • shibboleth

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"Seth." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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