Μανασσῆς
Manassēs
Manasseh
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Μανασσῆς (Manassēs) — A Biblical Proper Name Μανασσῆς is the Greek transliteration of a Hebrew proper name appearing 119 times in the biblical text. As a name rather than a common word with semantic range, it functions as a fixed identifier for specific persons and entities within the scriptural narrative. The frequency of occurrence—119 instances—indicates that this name held considerable importance in the biblical account and was significant enough to warrant repeated mention across multiple books and contexts. The name Manassēs refers primarily to the firstborn son of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible, whose story establishes one of Israel's twelve tribes. The Greek form preserves this historical and genealogical significance. Given the volume of occurrences, the name appears not only in narrative accounts of Manassēs's individual life but also in genealogies, tribal listings, and references to the tribal territory and descendants bearing his name throughout Israel's history. As a proper name with extensive biblical documentation, Μανασσῆς serves as a historical and tribal identifier rather than conveying meaning through linguistic definition. Its 119 occurrences reflect its role as a central figure in Israel's tribal structure and genealogical traditions, making it one of the more frequently referenced proper names in biblical texts.
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Occurrences in Scripture
119 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:10So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
2 Chronicles 30:11Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone
2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 34:6He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.
2 Chronicles 34:9They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Psalms 60:7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
Psalms 80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
Psalms 108:8Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.
Isaiah 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Ezekiel 48:4“By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:5“By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
Genesis 41:51Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
Genesis 46:20To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 48:1After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 48:5Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
Genesis 48:13Joseph 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 to him.
Genesis 48:14Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis 48:14Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis 48:17When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Genesis 48:20He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’ ” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 48:20He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’ ” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 50:23Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
Numbers 1:10Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 1:34Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
Numbers 1:35those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Numbers 2:20“Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 2:20“Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 7:54On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh,
Numbers 10:23Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.
Numbers 13:11Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Numbers 26:28The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Numbers 26:29The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
Numbers 26:34These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
Numbers 27:1Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:1Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 32:33Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
Numbers 32:39The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
Numbers 32:40Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
Numbers 32:41Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
Numbers 34:14for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
Numbers 34:23Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Numbers 36:1The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.
Numbers 36:12They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
Deuteronomy 3:13and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
Deuteronomy 3:14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
Deuteronomy 33:17Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Deuteronomy 34:2and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,