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Genesis 41

Gen. 41:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And, behold, there came up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
out of the river
y`or (Hebrew #2975)
a 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 main river of Assyria
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream.
Pronounce: yeh-ore'
Origin: of Egyptian origin
seven
sheba` (Hebrew #7651)
from 7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
KJV usage: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare 7658.
Pronounce: sheh'-bah
Origin: or (masculine) shibrah {shib-aw'}
well
yapheh (Hebrew #3303)
beautiful (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), + goodly, pleasant, well.
Pronounce: yaw-feh'
Origin: from 3302
favored
mar'eh (Hebrew #4758)
a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision
KJV usage: X apparently, appearance(-reth), X as soon as beautiful(-ly), countenance, fair, favoured, form, goodly, to look (up) on (to), look(-eth), pattern, to see, seem, sight, visage, vision.
Pronounce: mar-eh'
Origin: from 7200
kine
parah (Hebrew #6510)
a heifer
KJV usage: cow, heifer, kine.
Pronounce: paw-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6499
and fatfleshed
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
bariy' (Hebrew #1277)
fatted or plump
KJV usage: fat ((fleshed), -ter), fed, firm, plenteous, rank.
Pronounce: baw-ree'
Origin: from 1254 (in the sense of 1262)
; and they fed
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
in a meadow
'achuw (Hebrew #260)
a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile)
KJV usage: flag, meadow.
Pronounce: aw'-khoo
Origin: of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation
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Cross References

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Gen. 41:17‑27• 17And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
 18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow:
 19And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favored and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
 20And the lean and the ill favored 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 favored, 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:
 23And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
 24And 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.
 25And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
 26The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
 27And the seven thin and ill favored kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. (Gen. 41:17‑27)
a meadow.Or, rather, "on, or among the reeds or sedges;" for so {achoo} is generally supposed to denote (see Job 8:11); so called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things together, from {achah,} to join, connect:
thus the Latin {juncus,} a bulrush, {a jungendo,} from joining, for the same reason.
He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near the Nile which Hasselquist describes as "having scarce any branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth, channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven feet high.
The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves."

J. N. Darby Translation

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And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fine-looking and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.