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manasseh

/məˈnæ.sə/

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What does manasseh mean?

proper noun

  1. The elder son of Joseph in the Bible, eponymous ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
  2. A male given name from Hebrew.

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/məˈnæ.sə/

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Here dwell those who have repented, and Manasseh, the penitent son of Hezekiah, presides over them.
Louis GinzbergThe Legends of the Jews — Volume 1Translated by Henrietta SzoldProject Gutenberg ebook #1493
Likewise (verse 32.) that hee made other Hebronites, "rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh" (these were the rest of Israel that dwelt beyond Jordan) "for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the King."
Thomas HobbesLeviathanProject Gutenberg ebook #3207