and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
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and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow:
Then behold, from the river came up seven cows, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they grazed among the reeds.
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and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow:
and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass:
and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass:
And lo, there came vp out of the riuer seuen fat fleshed, and welfauoured kine, and they fedde in the medowe.
Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.
and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat `in' flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds;
and behold, out of the River coming up are seven cows, fat [in] flesh, and of beautiful form, and they feed among the reeds;
Behold, seven cows came up out of the Nile, fat and desirable, and they grazed among the reeds.
Then behold, from the river came up seven cows, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they grazed among the reeds.
And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they fed in the reed-grass.
and behold, seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river. They fed in the marsh grass;
And behold, there came out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed, and well-favored; and they fed in a meadow:
I saw seven cows coming up from the river. They looked well-fed and healthy as they grazed among the reeds.
And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בָּאָֽחוּ reeds H260 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בָּאָֽחוּ reeds H260 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Genesis 41:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְהִנֵּ֣ה מִן הַיְאֹ֗ר עֹלֹת֙ שֶׁ֣בַע פָּר֔וֹת בְּרִיא֥וֹת בָּשָׂ֖ר וִיפֹ֣ת תֹּ֑אַר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ
and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὥσπερ ἐκ ὁ ποταμός ἀναβαίνω ἑπτά βοῦς καλός ὁ εἶδος καί ἐκλεκτός ὁ σάρξ καί νέμω ἐν ὁ ἄχι
and there came up as it were out of the river, seven cows well-favoured and choice-fleshed, and they fed on the sedge.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְהָא מִן נַהֲרָא סָלְקָן שְׁבַע תּוֹרָן פַּטִּימָן בְּשַׂר וְשַׁפִּירָן לְמֶחֱזֵי וְרַעְיָן בְּאַחֲוָה
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְהִנֵה מִן נַהֲרָא סַלְקַן שְׁבַע תּוֹרָתֵי פַּטִימָן בְּשַר וְשַׁפִּירָן לְמֶחְמֵי וְרַעֲיָין בְּגוֹ גוּמַיָא
And, behold, from the river came up seven oxen, fat-fleshed and goodjlooking, and they grazed in the midst of the sedges.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâchûw (“reeds”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 41:18 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.