Genesis 41:51
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
Note Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for making to forget.
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
Note Manasseh: that is, Forgetting
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
Note “Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget”.
And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- called
- A.M. 2292. B.C. 1712.
- Genesis 48:5, 13, 14, 18–20; Deuteronomy 33:17
- Manasseh
- i.e., Forgetting.
- Genesis 41:30; Psalm 45:10; Isaiah 57:16
- forget
- Psalm 30:5, 11; Proverbs 31:7; Isaiah 65:16