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Genesis 41:19

What does Genesis 41:19 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 41:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean <FI>in<Fi> flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill-favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed — such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.

Context

v.18and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass:

v.19This passage

v.20and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

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