Manasseh

Biblical king of Judah, the eldest son of Joseph who was adopted and blessed by Jacob. He was the eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel, who later became the Jewish people.

Manasseh, the elder of the two sons of Joseph. He and his brother Ephraim were afterwards adopted by Jacob as his own sons (Genesis 48:1). His sons were Asriel and Machir, who was born to him by an Aramean concubine (1 Chronicles 7:14); and the only thing afterwards recorded of him is that his grandchildren were "brought up upon Joseph's knees" (Gen. R.V., "born upon Joseph's knees") i.e., were from their birth adopted by Joseph as his own children. Manasseh of Judah, a king of the kingdom of Judah.

In Judges 18:30 the correct reading could possibly read "Moses," and not "Manasseh." Some scholars believe that the name "Manasseh" was introduced by a transcriber to avoid the scandal of naming the grandson of Moses the great lawgiver.