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Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams

Genesis 41:23

In 11 translations

BSB
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.
KJV
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:withered: or, small
WEB
and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
ASV
and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
LSV
and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
YLT
and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
DBY
And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them;
DRC
Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stock:
GNV
And lo, seuen eares, withered, thinne, and blasted with the East winde, sprang vp after them.
JPS
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
LXXE
And other seven ears, thin and blasted with the wind, sprang up close to them.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְהִנֵּה֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים צְנֻמ֥וֹת דַּקּ֖וֹת שְׁדֻפ֣וֹת קָדִ֑ים צֹמְח֖וֹת אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ἄλλοι δὲ ἑπτὰ στάχυες λεπτοὶ καὶ ἀνεμόφθοροι ἀνεφύοντο ἐχόμενοι αὐτῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 129:6–7May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow, unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
  • Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
  • Genesis 41:6After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.
  • Hosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every…
  • Hosea 9:16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
  • 2 Kings 19:26Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

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