What Does Numbers 13:11 Mean in the King James?
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The roster quietly carries a story of release: Manasseh’s name is linked to “made me forget,” a burden loosening its hold.
THE MEANING
This verse holds identity in layers: a name, a father, and a tribe whose name carries the meaning “causing to forget.” Manasseh preserves the memory of a burden released, so the past can be part of what you carry without defining all that you are now.
THE ROOT
מְנַשֶּׁה
Menashsheh
GROWS FROM
נשה
n-sh-h
To forget; in this name, causing to forget.
Manasseh is linked to nashah, “to forget,” and Genesis 41:51 makes the connection explicit: “God ... hath made me forget all my toil.” The name carries forgetting as release from an old burden, allowing a lineage to hold the memory of that loosening too.
ALSO GROWS
nashani: “He made me forget,” a form of the verb in Genesis 41:51.
נַשַּׁנִי
This is the phrase behind Manasseh’s name, revealing the release carried inside the tribal name.
Menashsheh: Manasseh; “causing to forget.”
מְנַשֶּׁה
The name carries that release forward as part of Gaddi’s lineage.
THE PATTERN
Release from an old burden can become part of the identity carried forward.
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.Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,THE THREAD
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 voices the same nashah (נָשָׁה, “to forget”) root in “made me forget.” Read beside it, the tribal name in Numbers 13:11 carries more than ancestry: it preserves the trace of an old burden losing its hold.
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