and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
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And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Genesis 41:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 41:6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
- 2 Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
- Psalms 129:6-7 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
- Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
- Hosea 9:16 Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
- Hosea 13:15 Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The seven good kine are seven years,.... Signify seven…
The seven good kine are seven years,.... Signify seven years, and these years of plenty, as appears from the antithesis in Gen 41:26,
and the seven good ears are seven years; signify the same:
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the dream is one; for though the seven good kine were seen in one dream, the seven good ears in another, yet both dreams were one as to signification.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain
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George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain blasted with the east wind--destructive everywhere to grain, but…
blasted with the east wind--destructive everywhere to grain, but particularly so in Egypt; where, sweeping over the sandy deserts of Arabia, it comes in the character of a hot, blighting wind, that quickly withers all vegetation (compare Eze 19:12; Hos 13:15).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. withered] The Hebrew word occurs here only in…
23. withered] The Hebrew word occurs here only in O.T., and is omitted by LXX and Lat.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) Withered.—This word occurs only in this place. Its…
(23) Withered.—This word occurs only in this place. Its meaning is stony, that is, the grains were shrivelled and hard like bits of grit.
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