Bible Dictionaries
Sheth
Holman Bible Dictionary
(sshehth) Personal and tribal name of uncertain meaning. Moabite clan whose destruction Balaam prophesied (Numbers 24:17 ). The Hebrew spelling is the same as Seth (Genesis 4:25 ). Egyptian and Babylonian texts point to a people called Sutu, semi-nomads in the Syrian and Arabian desert. Rather than a proper name, some commentators think the translation should be, “sons of tumult.”
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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Sheth'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hbd/s/sheth.html. 1991.