Holy Scripture
Genesis 41:51
A church father on this verse
“Consider the man's God-fearing attitude. By recording the memory of everything by the name of his son, Joseph purposely expressed his constant thankfulness. He did so that the one born to him might be in a position to know from his own name the trials and endurance that characterized the good man and so brought Joseph…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn, Manasseh; For God, said he, has made me forget all my toils, and all my father’s house.
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In context
49And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.
50And to Joseph were born two sons, before the seven years of famine came, which Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore to him.
— Genesis 41:51 —
52And he called the name of the second, Ephraim; For God, said he, has increased me in the land of my humiliation.
53And the seven years of plenty passed away, which were in the land of Egypt.