Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
👑 A king of Judah 👦 Joseph's eldest son 🧑‍💼 A family name
Manasseh

Manasseh

1 9.9
The eldest son of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible and ancestor of a tribe of Israel
  • proper noun
translation icon : Manasés
  • Joseph's younger son Ephraim takes precedence over the elder Manasseh.
  • Manasseh and Ephraim

Examples

  • Manasseh and Ephraim receive a simultaneous blessing that in the same instant recognizes and dissolves the tension between the older and the younger.

    Academic text (1990)

  • My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.

  • Manasseh, Ephraim.

    Joseph (1995)

  • The book's first prophet, named Lehi, is an Israelite through his ancestor Manasseh.

    Academic text (2018)

  • In this passage, the tribes of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) were complaining to Joshua because they are numerous, but they were only given one portion (v. 14).

    Blog text (1)

  • Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given possession in Bashan.

  • On his deathbed, Israel blessed Ephraim when he adopted him and his brother Manasseh.

Surface Forms

Manasseh main

Etymology

Manasseh is the name of Joseph's elder son and comes from the Hebrew Menashe, which means 'causing to forget'. Joseph named his son this because he felt God had made him forget his hard times, and that story is why people still choose the name for its hopeful meaning.