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25. שׁת shēt — Sheth, “placed, put.”
26. אנישׁ 'enôsh — Enosh, “man, sickly.” בשׁם קרא…

He called his name Enos. —Heb., Enosh, that is, man. We thus find language growing. Until now, there had been tw…

Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. In the verb ‘to call upon,’ there is a synecdoche, for it generally embraces th…

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son
When he was an hundred and five years old, (Genesis 5:6) a…

Our first parents were comforted in their affliction by the birth of a son, whom they called Seth, that is, “set,” “settled,” or “placed”; in his s…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes