King James Version
Genesis 41:1 in the King James Version says “And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 41 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.”
Genesis 41:1 · KJV
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed ; and they fed in a meadow.
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed ; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“And it came to pass at the end”
H7093an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
“of two full”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“dreamed”
H2492properly, to bind firmly, i.e., (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
“and behold he stood”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“by the river”
H2975a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m
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