King James Version
Genesis 41:23 in the King James Version says “And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: withered: or, small” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 41 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: withered: or, small”
Genesis 41:23 · KJV
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:
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: withered: or, small
And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And behold seven”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
“ears”
H7641a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
“with the east wind”
H6921the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the east (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)
“after them”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
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