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Selected Verse: Genesis 41:18 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ge 41:18 |
Strong Concordance |
And, behold, there came up [05927] out of the river [02975] seven [07651] kine [06510], fatfleshed [01277] [01320] and well [03303] favoured [08389]; and they fed [07462] in a meadow [0260]: |
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King James |
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
there came up out of the river seven kine--Cows now, of the buffalo kind, are seen daily plunging into the Nile; when their huge form is gradually emerging, they seem as if rising "out of the river."
and they fed in a meadow--Nile grass, the aquatic plants that grow on the marshy banks of that river, particularly the lotus kind, on which cattle were usually fattened. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Seven kine, fat-fleshed - See Clarke on Gen 41:2 (note). And observe farther, that the seven fat and the seven lean kine coming out of the same river plainly show, at once, the cause both of the plenty and the dearth. It is well known that there is scarcely any rain in Egypt; and that the country depends for its fertility on the overflowing of the Nile; and that the fertility is in proportion to the duration and quantity of the overflow. We may therefore safely conclude that the seven years of plenty were owing to an extraordinary overflowing of the Nile; and that the seven years of dearth were occasioned by a very partial, or total want of this essentially necessary inundation. Thus then the two sorts of cattle, signifying years of plenty and want, might be said to come out of the same river, as the inundation was either complete, partial, or wholly restrained. See Clarke on Gen 41:31 (note). |
31 And the plenty [07647] shall not be known [03045] in the land [0776] by reason [06440] of that famine [07458] following [0310] [03651]; for it shall be very [03966] grievous [03515].
2 And, behold, there came up [05927] out of the river [02975] seven [07651] well [03303] favoured [04758] kine [06510] and fatfleshed [01277] [01320]; and they fed [07462] in a meadow [0260].