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title: מְנַשִּׁי — Menashshite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְנַשִּׁי (4520), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Menashshite. BDB 1906: adj. gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְנַשִּׁי

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«מְנַשִּׁי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Menashshite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 4520 · **BDB:** מְנַשִּׁי

### Glosses

Manassite\[s\] (2); the.Manassite\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Menashshite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4520/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4520/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. of מ׳ 1; only c. art. הַמְֿ׳, as n. coll., of tribe E. of Jordan: Dt 4:43 2 K 10:33; שֵׁבֶט הַמְֿ׳ Dt 29:7 1 Ch 26:32.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְנַשִּׁי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4520/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 29:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.7/)

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וַנִּקַּח֙ אֶת־אַרְצָ֔ם וַנִּתְּנָ֣הּ לְנַחֲלָ֔ה לָרֽאוּבֵנִ֖י וְלַגָּדִ֑י וְלַחֲצִ֖י שֵׁ֥בֶט הַֽמְנַשִּֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and we.took (et) land their and we gave.it for an.inheritance to the Reubenite\[s\] and to the Gadite\[s\] and to the.half of.the.tribe of the.Manassite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

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[Deuteronomy 4:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.43/)

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אֶת־בֶּ֧צֶר בַּמִּדְבָּ֛ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ הַמִּישֹׁ֖ר לָרֻֽאוּבֵנִ֑יוְאֶת־רָאמֹ֤ת בַּגִּלְעָד֙ לַגָּדִ֔י וְאֶת־גּוֹלָ֥ן בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן לַֽמְנַשִּֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* (et) Bezer in the wilderness in the.land of the.plain for the Reubenite\[s\] and (et) Ramoth in (the) Gilead for the Gadite\[s\] and (et) Golan in (the) Bashan for the Manassite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Bezer in the wilderness, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

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