Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Sheth

(compensation).

The patriarch Seth. (1 Chronicles 1:1)

In the Authorized Version of (Numbers 24:17) not a proper name, but there is reason to regard it as an appellative. Read instead of "the sons of Sheth." "the suns of tumult." Comp. (Jeremiah 48:45)

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith (1863). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.