The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."
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The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."
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.
Then the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. And I told to the magicians, but no one explain to me.”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."
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.”
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.”
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.
and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
And the thinne eares deuoured the seuen good eares. Nowe I haue tolde the soothsayers, and none can declare it vnto me.
And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, full and very fair.
and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.'
and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell [it] to the enchanters, and there is none declaring [it] to me.”
The thin heads swallowed up the seven good heads. I told these dreams to the magicians, but there was none that could explain it to me.”
Then the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. And I told to the magicians, but no one explain to me.”
and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me.
The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this to the magicians; but there was none that could explain it to me.
The seven thin heads of grain swallowed up the healthy ones. I told all this to the magicians, but none of them could explain its meaning to me.”
And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַֽחַרְטֻמִּ֔ים diviner H2748 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַֽחַרְטֻמִּ֔ים diviner H2748 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 30 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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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.
Topical passages linked to Genesis 41:24 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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וַתִּבְלַ֨עְןָ֙ הָשִׁבֳּלִ֣ים הַדַּקֹּ֔ת אֵ֛ת שֶׁ֥בַע הַֽשִׁבֳּלִ֖ים הַטֹּב֑וֹת וָֽאֹמַר֙ אֶל הַֽחַרְטֻמִּ֔ים וְאֵ֥ין מַגִּ֖יד לִֽי
The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί καταπίνω ὁ ἑπτά στάχυς ὁ λεπτός καί ἀνεμόφθορος ὁ ἑπτά στάχυς ὁ καλός καί ὁ πλήρης εἶπον οὖν ὁ ἐξηγητής καί οὐ εἰμί ὁ ἀποἀγγέλλω ἐγώ
And the seven thin and blasted ears devoured the seven fine and full ears: so I spoke to the interpreters, and there was no one to explain it to me.
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.
וּבְלָעָן שֻׁבְּלַיָּא לָקְיָתָא יָת שְׁבַע שֻׁבְּלַיָּא טָּבָתָא וַאֲמָרִית לַחֲרָשַׁיָּא וְלֵית דִּי מְחַוֵּי לִי
(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.
וּבָלְעָן תּוּבְלַיָא לַקְיָיתָא יַת שְׁבַע תּוּבְלַיָא טַבְתָא וַאֲמָרִית לְחַרְשַׁיָא וְלֵית דְמִתְנֵי לִי
And the seven thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told the magicians, but there is no one who can teach me.
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 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is charṭôm (“diviner”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 41:24 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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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.
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.