A name from Scripture
Manasseh
muh-NAS-uh
Meaning
Causing to forget
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Genesis
What it points to
Manasseh's name speaks of God's power to heal painful memories. Both the patriarch's son and the wicked king demonstrate that God transforms our past sorrows into testimonies of grace.
Verses · King James Version
“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.”
Genesis 41:51
“And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.”
2 Chronicles 33:13