shet is a proper name used for the people called the sons of Sheth in a judgment saying.

The attested use is a proper name identifying the group called “the sons of Sheth” in a pronouncement that also names Moab.

1. Name of the sons of Sheth · dominant

   In Numbers 24:17, the noun marked Proper occurs in the clause concerning the destruction of “all the sons of Sheth”; the APB renders the wider line, “He has struck the sides of Moab and destroyed all the sons of Sheth.”

   Numbers 24:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Numbers 24:17, the APB presents the name in the phrase “the sons of Sheth.” The term's contribution is identified from its proper-noun morphology and its place in that clause.