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Manasses
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “given name of seven persons of the bible”. Today it says “biblical hebrew name for men”.
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Manasses or Manasseh ( / m ə ˈ n æ s ə / ; Hebrew : מְנַשֶּׁה , Mənaše ) is a biblical Hebrew name for men. It is the given name of seven people of the Bible, the name of a tribe of Israel, and the name of one of the apocryphal writings.
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given name of seven persons of the bible
Now
biblical hebrew name for men
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