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Strong's #4519 - מְנַשֶּׁה
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- Manasseh = "causing to forget"
- the eldest son of Joseph and progenitor of the tribe of Manasseh
- the tribe descended from Manasseh
- the territory occupied by the tribe of Manasseh
- son of king Hezekiah of Judah and himself king of Judah; he was the immediate and direct cause for the exile
- a descendant of Pahath-moab who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- a descendant of Hashum who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- the eldest son of Joseph and progenitor of the tribe of Manasseh
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a. Manasseh, eldest son of Joseph Genesis 41:51; Genesis 48:1,13,14 (twice in verse); Genesis 48:17,20 (twice in verse), also Genesis 50:23 (father of Machir; all E), Genesis 46:20; Genesis 48:5 (both P).
b. of tribe, often + Ephraim (see אֶפְרַיִם): (I) the part west of Jordan: a. ׳בְּנֵי מ Joshua 16:9; Joshua 17:2 a (׳בנימֿהַנּוֺתָרִים), Joshua 17:2 b; Joshua 17:6; Joshua 17:12 (all J E), 1 Chronicles 7:29; 1 Chronicles 9:3 (׳בְּנֵי אֶפְרַיִם וּמ; Joshua 13:29 see below); β.׳מ alone, Joshua 17:5,8 (twice in verse); Joshua 17:9b; Joshua 17:11,17; Deuteronomy 34:2 (׳אֶרֶץ אֶפְרַיִם וּמ; all J E), 2 Chronicles 30:10 ( id.), Joshua 16:4; Joshua 17:7; Joshua 17:9a; Joshua 17:10 (all P), also apparently Deuteronomy 33:17 (poem), Judges 1:27; Judges 6:15,35; Judges 7:23; Isaiah 9:20 (twice in verse); Psalm 80:3 10t. Chronicles; γ.׳מַטֵּה מ 1 Chronicles 6:55; ׳חֲצִי מַטֵּה מ Joshua 21:6,25; 1 Chronicles 12:32 (van d. H v. 1 Chronicles 12:31); ׳מַחֲצִית מַטֵּה חֲצִי מ 1 Chronicles 6:46 (but on text see Kit); וְאֶפְרַיִם׳שְׁנֵי מַטּוֺת מ Joshua 14:4 (P); δ. ׳חֲצִי שֵׁבֶט מ 1 Chronicles 27:20; with article ׳הַשֵּׁבֶט הַמְֿ Joshua 13:7 (D). (2) of Manasseh east of Jordan; α.׳בְּנֵי מ Joshua 22:30,31 (P); β. ׳מ alone, Judges 11:29 (distinctly of territory), Judges 12:4 (but on text see GFM), Psalm 60:9 = Psalm 108:9; ׳חֲצִי הַמ 1 Chronicles 27:21; γ.׳מַטֵּה מ Joshua 17:1 a Joshua 20:8 (both P), 1 Chronicles 6:47; ׳חֲצִי מַטֵּה מ Joshua 22:1 (D), Numbers 34:14; Joshua 21:5,27 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:56; חֲצִי מַטֵּה׳בְּנֵי מ Joshua 13:29 (P); δ. ׳חֲצִי שֵׁבֶט מ Deuteronomy 3:13 (D), Joshua 13:29; Joshua 22:13,15 (all P), 1 Chronicles 15:18,23,26; 1 Chronicles 12:38 (van d. H v. 1 Chronicles 12:37); בֶּןיֿוֺסֵף׳חֲצִי שֵׁבֶט מ Numbers 32:33 (P); with article ׳חֲצִי שֵׁבֶט הַמְֿ Joshua 1:12; Joshua 4:12; Joshua 12:6; Joshua 18:7; Joshua 22:1,7 (all D), Joshua 22:9,10,11,21 (all P). Here belong also (chiefly) references to ׳מ as father of Machir (compare Genesis 50:23 above): Numbers 27:1; Numbers 32:39,40; Numbers 36:1; Joshua 13:31; Joshua 17:1,3(all P), 1 Chronicles 7:14,17; and of Jair Deuteronomy 3:14 (D), Numbers 32:41 (P), 1 Kings 4:13 (compare מָכִיר, יָאִיר). (3) of undivided tribe (never ׳שֵׁבֶט מ): α.׳בְּנֵי מ Numbers 1:34; Numbers 2:20; Numbers 7:54; Numbers 26:29; Numbers 36:12 (all P); β. ׳מ alone, Numbers 1:10; Numbers 26:28,34; Numbers 27:1 b (all P), Ezekiel 48:4,5; γ.׳מַטֵּה מ Numbers 1:35; Numbers 2:20; Numbers 13:11, ׳מַטֵּה בְּנֵי מ Numbers 10:23; Numbers 34:13 (all P).
2 son of Hezekiah, and king of Judah (Assyrian Menasê, Minsê Schr COT 2 Kings 21:1); — 2 Kings 20:21; 2 Kings 21:1 9t. Kings, 12t. Chronicles, Jeremiah 15:4.
3 two who had taken strange wives:
a. Ezra 10:30.
b. Ezra 10:33.
מְנַשֶּׁה (“one who forgets;” see Genesis 41:51), pr.n. Gr. Μανασσῆς, Manasseh.
(1) a son of Joseph, adopted by Jacob his grandfather, Genesis 48:1, seqq. For the boundaries of the territory of the tribe of Manasseh, part of which was on each side of Jordan, see -Josh. 13:2932 ; 17:8, seqq. Patron. מְנַשִּׁי Deuteronomy 4:43.
(2) a king of Judah (699-644, B.C.), the son of Hezekiah, remarkable for his idolatry, superstition, and cruelty towards the righteous, -2 Kings 21:118 ; -2 Ch. 33:120.
(3) Judges 18:30 כתיב.
(4) Ezra 10:30.
(5) verse 33 Ezra 10:33.