Genesis 4:25

called his name Here, as in Genesis 4:1 (see note), the mother gives the name.

God Elohim (not Jehovah, as in Genesis 4:1), probably because of Genesis 4:26.

hath appointed Heb. shath. As was pointed out in the note on Genesis 4:1, the resemblance to a Hebrew word in the sound of a proper name does not supply its strict etymology. The name "Seth" (shêth) = "setting" or "slip," resembles in sound the Hebrew verb for "appointed" or "set" (shâth), and it is to this assonance that Eve's words refer.

It is an instance of a play on a word, viz. paronomasia, of which there are many cases in the O.T. But assonance is a delusive element in etymology.

another seed We are not to infer that no other children were born to Eve, but that Seth was "appointed" to take the place of Abel, and his seed to form a righteous counterpart to the unholy seed of Cain. In Sir 49:16 Seth is united with Shem as "glorified among men."