King James Version
Genesis 41:18 in the King James Version says “And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 41 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:”
Genesis 41:18 · KJV
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed , such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“out of 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
“And behold there came up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“seven”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
“and they fed”
H7462to tend a flock; i.e., pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frie
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