Means "placed" or "appointed" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament he was the third named son of Adam and Eve. In England this name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.

From Σεθως (Sethos), the Greek form of Egyptian Sutekh or Set, which possibly meant "pillar" or "dazzle". Seth was the evil Egyptian god of chaos and the desert, the slayer of Osiris. Orisis' son Horus eventually defeats Set and has him banished to the desert.