menashe · Manasseh

What it means

menashe (מְנַשֶּׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Manasseh”.

The elder son of Joseph; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and a king of Judah. The name sounds like "make forget".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Numbers×21
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×43
• Judges×7
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×11
• 1 Chronicles×19
• 2 Chronicles×19
• Ezra×2
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 41:51

  Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all the house of my father.”

• Genesis 46:20

  To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

• Genesis 48:1

  After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Look, your father is ill.” So he took his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Genesis 48:5

  And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Genesis 48:13

  Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them near to him.

• Genesis 48:14

  But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was displeasing in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May Elohim make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Genesis 50:23

  Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; also the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were born on Joseph’s knees.

• Numbers 1:10

  from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

• Numbers 1:34

  Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:35

  those of them counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

• Numbers 2:20

  And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; and the chief of the sons of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur,

• Numbers 7:54

  On the eighth day, the chief of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur:

• Numbers 10:23

  And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh was Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

• Numbers 13:11

  of the tribe of Joseph, that is, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi;

• Numbers 26:28

  The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Numbers 26:29

  The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

• Numbers 26:34

  These are the families of Manasseh, and those of them counted were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

• Numbers 27:1

  The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh son of Joseph, came near. And these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 32:33

  Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within their borders, the cities of the land all around.

• Numbers 32:39

  The sons of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorite who was in it.

• Numbers 32:40

  Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.

• Numbers 32:41

  Jair son of Manasseh went and took their villages, and he called them Havvoth-jair.

• Numbers 34:14

  For the tribe of the sons of the Reubenites by their fathers’ house and the tribe of the sons of the Gadites by their fathers’ house have taken, and the half tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance.

• Numbers 34:23

  of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, a chief, Hanniel son of Ephod;

• Numbers 36:1

  The heads of the fathers’ houses of the family of the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the sons of Israel.

• Numbers 36:12

  Within the families of the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph they became wives, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

• Deuteronomy 3:13

  The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As for all that Bashan, it is called a land of Rephaim.

• Deuteronomy 3:14

  Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them by his name, Bashan Havvoth-jair, to this day.)

• Deuteronomy 33:17

  The firstborn of his bull, splendor is his, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he will gore the peoples, all together, to the ends of the earth. And they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

• Deuteronomy 34:2

  and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

• Joshua 1:12

  And to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to half the tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,

• Joshua 4:12

  The sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed in battle formation before the sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them.

• Joshua 12:6

  Moses the servant of YHWH and the sons of Israel struck them, and Moses the servant of YHWH gave it as a possession to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 13:7

  And now divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh.”

• Joshua 13:29

  And Moses gave to the half tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their families.

• Joshua 13:31

  and half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.

• Joshua 14:4

  For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, and their pasturelands for their livestock and for their possessions.

• Joshua 16:4

  So the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

And 106 more times.