Manasseh = "causing to forget"
- the eldest son of Joseph and progenitor of the tribe of Manasseh
- the tribe descended from Manasseh
- the territory occupied by the tribe of Manasseh
- son of king Hezekiah of Judah and himself king of Judah; he was the immediate and direct cause for the exile
- a descendant of Pahath-moab who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- a descendant of Hashum who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra