| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Ge 41:19 | Strong Concordance | And, behold, seven [07651] other [0312] kine [06510] came up [05927] after them [0310], poor [01803] and very [03966] ill [07451] favoured [08389] and leanfleshed [07534] [01320], such [02007] as I never [03808] saw [07200] in all the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] for badness [07455]: |
| King James | And, 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: |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| behold, seven other kine . . . poor and ill-favoured--The cow being the emblem of fruitfulness, the different years of plenty and of famine were aptly represented by the different condition of those kine--the plenty, by the cattle feeding on the richest fodder; and the dearth, by the lean and famishing kine, which the pangs of hunger drove to act contrary to their nature. |