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Genesis 41:20 KJV
Genesis · chapter 41 · verse 20
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:Genesis 41:20 · King James Version
Genesis 41:20 in context
18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
19And, 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:
20And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
21And 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.
22And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- favouredraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- firstriʼshôwnfirst, in place, time or rankH7223 →
- sevenshebaʻsevenH7651 →
- leanraqemaciatedH7534 →
- kinepârâha heiferH6510 →
- fatbârîyʼfatted or plumpH1277 →
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Here, I. Pharaoh relates his dream. He dreamt that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones and the lean ones, come out of the river.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-32