Seth

American  

[seth] / sɛθ /

noun

1. the third son of Adam. Genesis 4:25

2. a male given name.

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Seth British  

/ sɛθ /

noun

1. Old Testament Adam's third son, given by God in place of the murdered Abel (Genesis 4:25)

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Etymology

Origin of Seth

From Late Latin Seth, from Greek Sḗth, from Hebrew Shēth, a name associated with shāth “he has placed”

Example Sentences

Seth Lazar, a philosophy professor at the Australian National University, says the new measures were "extremely misguided, both as a matter of technological practice and from the perspective of liberal values".

From BBC

Nobody who “has looked at our numbers” can “be comfortable with where we are for Thaad and Patriot,” says Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal

But if the party line is some version of reforming the relatively young agency, nobody told Rep. Seth Moulton.

From Salon

"If we think 10 percent of planetesimal objects are contact binaries, the process that forms them can't be rare," said Earth and Environmental Science Professor Seth Jacobson, senior author on the paper.

From Science Daily

You may remember this as the backdrop from a scene in “The Studio,” where the head of a fictional Hollywood institution, played by Seth Rogen, learns he’s finally landed his dream job.

From Los Angeles Times