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Genesis 41:23

and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

  • KJV King James Version

    And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

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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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Explain this verse (5 sources)

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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.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain blasted with the east wind--destructive everywhere to grain, but…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. withered] The Hebrew word occurs here only in…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) Withered.—This word occurs only in this place. Its…

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