Genesis 41:2
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Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

there came.

Genesis 41:17-27 So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river, . . .

a meadow.

Job 8:11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

); so called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things together, from {achah,} to join, connect: thus the Latin {juncus,} a bulrush, a {jungendo,} from joining, for the same reason. He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near the Nile which Hasselquist describes as having scarce any branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth, channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven feet high. The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves.

Context
The Dreams of Pharaoh
1After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river, 2Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.3Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:…
Cross References
Genesis 41:1
After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

Genesis 41:3
Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:

Genesis 41:18
And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.

Job 8:11
Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

Isaiah 19:7
The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.

Lexicon
when seven
שֶׁ֣בַע (še·ḇa‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

cows,
פָּר֔וֹת (pā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6510: A heifer, cow

sleek
יְפ֥וֹת (yə·p̄ō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3303: Fair, beautiful

and well-fed,
וּבְרִיאֹ֣ת (ū·ḇə·rî·’ōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1277: Fatted, plump

came up
עֹלֹת֙ (‘ō·lōṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

from
מִן־ (min-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

the river
הַיְאֹ֗ר (hay·’ōr)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

and began to graze
וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה (wat·tir·‘e·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

among the reeds.
בָּאָֽחוּ׃ (bā·’ā·ḥū)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 260: A bulrush, any marshy grass


Additional Translations
when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favored cows and fat; and they fed in a meadow.

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

And lo, there came up as it were out of the river seven cows, fair in appearance, and choice of flesh, and they fed on the sedge.

And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fine-looking and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well favoured and fatfleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

And behold, there came up out of the river seven well-favored cows and fat-fleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

and lo, from the River coming up are seven kine, of fair appearance, and fat in flesh, and they feed among the reeds;
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