King James Version
Genesis 41:20 in the King James Version says “And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 41 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:”
Genesis 41:20 · KJV
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:
And when they had eaten them up , it could not be known that they had eaten them ; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke. eaten: Heb. come to the inward parts of them
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“seven”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
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