KJV 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.
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Genesis 41:51
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
WEB World English Bible
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.”
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: ‘for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;’
Surrounding context — Genesis 41
48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which [was] round about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 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.
52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיִּקְרָ֥אH7121 · qa.rato call: call toיוֹסֵ֛ףH3130 · yo.sephJosephאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שֵׁ֥םH8034 · shemnameהַבְּכ֖וֹרH1060 · be.khorfirstbornמְנַשֶּׁ֑הH4519 · me.nash.shehManassehכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforנַשַּׁ֤נִיH5382 · na.shahto forgetאֱלֹהִים֙H430 · e.lo.himGodאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallעֲמָלִ֔יH5999 · a.maltroubleוְאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallבֵּ֥יתH1004 · betplaceאָבִֽי׃H1 · avfather
Cross-references
Psalm 30:5For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour [is] life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.Proverbs 31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.Genesis 41:30And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;Deuteronomy 33:17His glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and his horns [are like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they [are] the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of Manasseh.Psalm 30:11Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;Psalm 45:10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;Isaiah 57:16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.Genesis 48:13-14And Joseph 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 unto him.Genesis 48:18-20And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.Genesis 48:5And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.Isaiah 65:16That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
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