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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]:
  King James And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

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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.
 
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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].