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Seth

Name means: Substituted, Put in place of
Parents: Adam and Eve
Wife: Not named
Children: Enos, others

Found in: Genesis 4:24-25, 5:3-8; 1 Chronicles 1:1; Luke 3:38

Seth was viewed by Adam and Eve as a replacement "for Abel, whom Cain slew" (Genesis 4:25). Nothing else is known or said of Seth, except in the genealogies of Genesis, 1 Chronicles 1 and Luke 3.

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.