Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Genesis 41:1 - 41:1

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Genesis 41:1 - 41:1


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Pharaoh's Dreams and Their Interpretation. - Two full years afterwards (יָמִים accus. “in days,” as in Gen 29:14) Pharaoh had a dream. He was standing by the Nile, and saw seven fine fat cows ascend from the Nile and feed in the Nile-grass (אָחוּ an Egyptian word); and behind them seven others, ugly (according to Gen 41:19, unparalleled in their ugliness), lean (בָּשָׂר דַּקֹּות “thin in flesh,” for which we find in Gen 41:19 דַּלֹּות “fallen away,” and בָּשָׂר רַקֹּות withered in flesh, fleshless), which placed themselves beside those fat ones on the brink of the Nile and devoured them, without there being any effect to show that they had eaten them. He then awoke, but fell asleep again and had a second, similar dream: seven fat (Gen 41:22, full) and fine ears grew upon one blade, and were swallowed up by seven thin (Gen 41:23, “and hardened”) ones, which were blasted by the east wind (קָדִים i.e., the S.E. wind, Chamsin, from the desert of Arabia).