Manasseh
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house
of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad
according to the house of their fathers, have received [their
inheritance]; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received
their inheritance:...
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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward
Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward
Israel's right hand, and brought [them] near unto him....
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Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed
over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead,
and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children
of Ammon....
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Manasseh is an Ancient Hebrew male name, meaning "causing to
forget".[1] Manasseh may refer to:
Manasseh (tribal patriarch), a son of Joseph, according to the
Torah
the Tribe of Manasseh, an Israelite tribe
Manasseh of Judah, a king of the kingdom of Judah.
Manasseh (High Priest), the ancestor of a priest named
Jonathan, mentioned in the Book of...
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ma-nas'-e (menashsheh, "causing to forget"; compare Gen
41:51; Man(n)asse):
(1) The firstborn of Joseph by Asenath, daughter of Poti-
phera, priest of On. See next article.
(2) The tribe named from Manasseh, half of which, with Gad
and Reuben, occupied the East of Jordan (Nu 27:1, etc.). See
next article.
(3) The "Manasseh" of Jdg 18:30,31 the K...
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-1. Son of Joseph and Asenath
Ge 41:50,51; 46:20
Adopted by Jacob on his deathbed
Ge 48:1,5-20
Called MANASSES
Re 7:6
-2. Tribe of
Descendants of Joseph
-(The two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, were
reckoned
equally among the primogenitors of the twelve tribes
(taking
the places of Joseph and Levi))
Adopted by Jacob
Ge 48:5
Pr...
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(forgetting), the eldest son of Joseph, Ge 41:51; 46:20
born 1715-10 B.C. Both he and Ephraim were born before the
commencement of the famine. He was placed after his younger
brother, Ephraim, by his grandfather Jacob, when he adopted
them into his own family, and made them heads of tribes.
Whether the elder of the two sons was inferior in for...
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who makes to forget. "God hath made me forget" (Heb.
nashshani),
Gen. 41:51. (1.) The elder of the two sons of
Joseph. He and his
brother Ephraim were afterwards adopted by Jacob as
his own sons
(48:1). There is an account of his marriage to a
Syrian (1 Chr.
7:14); and the only thing afterwards recorded of him
is, that
his grandchildren w...
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("causing to forget".) Joseph's firstborn by Asenath, whose
birth "made him forget all his toil and all (the sorrow he
endured through) his father's house" (Genesis 41:51). Jacob
adopted them as his own, though "horn in Egypt" and by an
alien to Israel (Genesis 48:5; Genesis 48:9); "as Reuben and
Simeon they shall be mine," i.e. patriarchal he...
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forgetfulness; he that is forgotten...
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