Bible Person

Seth

Meaning: put; who puts; fixed · Male · 10 cross references

Seth is the son given to Adam and Eve after Abel's death, remembered as the replacement line through which the godly genealogy of Genesis 5 proceeds. He stands at the beginning of a renewed human branch after Cain's violence. First appears in Gen 4:25.1

Name meaning

put; who puts; fixed

Identity

male

First appears

Gen 4:25

AI summary: Seth matters because the cross references present him as the appointed continuation of humanity after the fracture of Cain and Abel. His birth is explicitly interpreted as God's provision of another seed, and through him the genealogical line runs toward Enoch, Noah, and eventually the post-flood world. He is therefore less a dramatic actor than a foundational bearer of continuity. Taken together, the material presents Seth as a replacement son whose line carries forward hope, worship, and the remembered ancestry of later biblical history.1

Central Figure

Seth

Meaning: put; who puts; fixed

Appointed; a substitute, the third son of Adam and Eve (Gen.

Name meaning

put; who puts; fixed

Identity

male

Birth place

Eden

Birth year

3074 BC

Death year

2692 BC