Sheth (Hastings' Dictionary)

In Nu 24" (only) AV and RVm tr. n-i' •33 ' chUdren (sons) of Sheth ' (LXX ^f,e, Vulg. Seth), but there can be little doubt that the correct tr. is that of RV, ' sons of tumult.' In that case pp would stand for nxi? (from root hne'), and would be=pi<P of the parallel passage Jer 48" (AV and RV ' tumultuous ones'). G. Hoffmann {ZATWiii. 97) takes nj to be a textual error for pN?'

, which he supposes in both these passages as well as in Ara 2- {2K\a ]iNv'3 nps) to be a Moabite place-name, perhaps that of the acropolis of Ar. See, further, DiUm. on Nu 24".