The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
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The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The seven good cows seven years, and the seven good heads of grain seven years. The dreams one.
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The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The seuen good kine are seuen yeres, and the seuen good eares are seuen yeeres: this is one dreame.
And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.
the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;
the seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years. The dreams are the same.
The seven good cows seven years, and the seven good heads of grain seven years. The dreams one.
The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The seven good cows and the seven good heads of grain represent seven good years of harvest. The dreams mean the same thing.
The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַֽשִּׁבֳּלִים֙ ear of grain H7641 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַֽשִּׁבֳּלִים֙ ear of grain H7641 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 15 Hebrew tokens and 22 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 41:26 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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שֶׁ֧בַע פָּרֹ֣ת הַטֹּבֹ֗ת שֶׁ֤בַע שָׁנִים֙ הֵ֔נָּה וְשֶׁ֤בַע הַֽשִּׁבֳּלִים֙ הַטֹּבֹ֔ת שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִ֖ים הֵ֑נָּה חֲל֖וֹם אֶחָ֥ד הֽוּא
The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὁ ἑπτά βοῦς ὁ καλός ἑπτά ἔτος εἰμί καί ὁ ἑπτά στάχυς ὁ καλός ἑπτά ἔτος εἰμί ὁ ἐνύπνιον φαραώ εἷς εἰμί
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream of Pharao is one.
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.
שְׁבַע תּוֹרְתָּא טָבָתָא שְׁבַע שְׁנִין אִנּוּן וּשְׁבַע שֻׁבְּלַיָּא טָבָתָא שְׁבַע שְׁנִין אִנּוּן חֶלְמָא חַד הוּא
(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.
שְׁבַע תּוֹרָתָן טַבְתָן שְׁבַע שְׁנַיָיא אִינוּן מְבַשְרָן וּשְׁבַע שׁוּבְלַיָא טַבְתָא שְׁבַע שְׁנַיָיא הָאִלֵין אִינוּן מְבַשְרָן חֶלְמָא חַד הוּא
The seven good oxen announce seven years; and the seven good ears announce also those seven years: the dream is one.
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 15 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shibbôl (“ear of grain”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 41:26 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.
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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.