Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
thin	הַדַּקֹּ֔ת ha.da.Kot	H1851	crushed · definite article + adjective, feminine plural absolute
ears	הָשִׁבֳּלִ֣ים ha.shi.bo.Lim	H7641	a stream (as flowing) · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
devoured	וַתִּבְלַ֙עְןָ֙ va.tiv.La'.na	H1104	to make away with (specifically by swallowing) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural
seven	שֶׁ֥בַע She.va'	H7651	seven (as the sacred full one) · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
good	הַטֹּב֑וֹת ha.to.Vot	H2896	good (as an adjective) in the widest sense · definite article + adjective, feminine plural absolute
ears	הַֽשִׁבֳּלִ֖ים ha.shi.bo.Lim	H7641	a stream (as flowing) · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
told	וָֽאֹמַר֙ va.'o.Mar	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 1st person common singular
magicians	הַֽחַרְטֻמִּ֔ים ha.char.tu.Mim	H2748	a horoscopist (as drawing magical lines or circles) · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
declare	מַגִּ֖יד ma.Gid	H5046	properly · verb, hiphil active participle, masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Daniel 4:7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make kno…
Genesis 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men…
Exodus 8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LO…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:17-32

Here, I. Pharaoh relates his dream. He dreamt that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones and the lean ones, come out of the river. For the kingdom of Egypt had no rain, as appears, Zac 14:18, but the plenty of the year depended upon the overflowing of the river, and it was about one certain time of the year that it overflowed. If it rose to fifteen or sixteen cubits, there was plenty; if to twelve or thirteen only, or under, there was scarcity. See how many ways Providence has of dispensing its gifts; yet, whatever the second causes are, our dependence is still the same upon the first Cause, who makes every creature that to us that it is, be it rain or…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 41:24

the thin ears devoured the seven good ears--devoured is a different word from that used in Gen 41:4 and conveys the idea of destroying, by absorbing to themselves all the nutritious virtue of the soil around them.

Adam Clarke on Genesis 41:21

And when they had eaten them up, etc. - Nothing can more powerfully mark the excess and severity of the famine than creatures of the beeve or of the hippopotamus kind eating each other, and yet without any effect; remaining as lean and as wretched as they were before. A sense of want increases the appetite, and stimulates the digestive powers to unusual action; hence the concoction of the food becomes very rapid, and it is hurried through the intestines before its nutritive particles can be sufficiently absorbed; and thus, though much is eaten, very little nourishment is derived from it. And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill…

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John Gill on Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears,.... See Gill on Genesis 41:7, and I told this unto the magicians; just in the same manner as he had to Joseph: but there was none that could declare it unto me; the meaning of it; what all this should signify or portend.

Dictionary and topics

Famine — The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to…
Kine — (Heb. sing. parah, i.e., “fruitful”), mentioned in Pharaoh’s dream (Gen. 41: 18). Here the word denotes “buffaloes,” which fed on the reeds and sedge by the river’s brink.
Pharaoh — The official title borne by the Egyptian kings down to the time when that country was conquered by the Greeks. (See EGYPT.) The name is a compound, as some think, of the words Ra, the “sun” or…
Egypt · History of Israel in: Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams — History of Israel in: Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams
Heathen · .Pharaoh — .Pharaoh
Joseph · .Of Pharaoh — .Of Pharaoh
Magician · Failed to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams — Failed to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams
Prisoners · Joseph — Joseph
Promotion · .Joseph, from impri — .Joseph, from impri
Wise Men · Of Egypt — Of Egypt

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Genesis 41:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:17-32

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 41:24

Adam Clarke on Genesis 41:21

John Gill on Genesis 41:24

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 41:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:17-32

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 41:24

Adam Clarke on Genesis 41:21

John Gill on Genesis 41:24

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Genesis 41:17-31

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 41:14-36

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 41:17-24