King James Version
Genesis 41:2 in the King James Version says “And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed ; 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 well favoured kine and fatfleshed ; and they fed in a meadow.”
Genesis 41:2 · 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.
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
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
“favoured”
H4758a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks),
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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