Genesis 41:23
New International Version
After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.

New Living Translation
Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were blighted, shriveled, and withered by the east wind.

English Standard Version
Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,

Berean Standard Bible
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.

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

New King James Version
Then behold, seven heads, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them.

New American Standard Bible
and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind sprouted up after them;

NASB 1995
and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

NASB 1977
and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

Legacy Standard Bible
and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

Amplified Bible
and lo, seven [other] ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them;

Christian Standard Bible
After them, seven heads of grain—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind—sprouted up.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After them, seven heads of grain—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind—sprouted up.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the hot wind sprouted after them:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And other seven ears, thin and blasted with the wind, sprang up close to them.

Contemporary English Version
Then seven other heads of grain came up. They were thin and scorched by a wind from the desert.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stock:

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Seven other heads of grain, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted behind them.

Good News Translation
Then seven heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,

International Standard Version
All of a sudden, seven thin, withered ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Literal Standard Version
and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;

Majority Standard Bible
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.

New American Bible
Behind them sprouted seven ears of grain, shriveled and thin and scorched by the east wind;

NET Bible
Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

New Revised Standard Version
and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouting after them;

New Heart English Bible
And look, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprouted up after them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

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

Young's Literal Translation
and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams
22In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk. 23 After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted— withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind. 24And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”…

Cross References
Genesis 41:6
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:22
In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.

Genesis 41:24
And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me."


Treasury of Scripture

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

withered.

Genesis 41:6
And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Psalm 129:6,7
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: …

blasted.

Genesis 41:20
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

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Genesis 41
1. Pharaoh has two dreams.
9. Joseph interprets them.
33. He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married.
46. The seven years of plenty.
50. He begets children.
53. The famine begins.














(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.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
After them,
אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃ (’a·ḥă·rê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

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

heads of grain
שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים (šib·bo·lîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7641: A stream, an ear of grain, a branch

sprouted—
צֹמְח֖וֹת (ṣō·mə·ḥō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 6779: To sprout, spring up

withered,
צְנֻמ֥וֹת (ṣə·nu·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6798: To dry up, harden

thin,
דַּקּ֖וֹת (daq·qō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 1851: Crushed, small, thin

and scorched
שְׁדֻפ֣וֹת (šə·ḏu·p̄ō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine plural construct
Strong's 7710: To scorch, blight

by the east wind.
קָדִ֑ים (qā·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6921: The fore, front part, the East


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