Genesis 41:50

Verse Genesis 41:50. Two sons] Whom he called by names expressive of God's particular and bountiful providence towards him. MANASSEH, מנשה menashsheh, signifies forgetfulness, from נשה nashah, to forget; and EPHRAIM, אפרים ephrayim, fruitfulness, from פרה parah, to be fruitful; and he called his sons by these names, because God had enabled him to forget all his toil, disgrace, and affliction, and had made him fruitful in the very land in which he had suffered the greatest misfortune and indignities.