Thematic Bible: Kine illustrative
Thematic Bible
Oxen » Kine illustrative » (well favored,) of years of plenty
And lo, there came up out of the Nile seven [healthy] cows, sleek and handsome and fat; and they grazed in the reed grass [in a marshy pasture].
Verse Concepts
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the [two] dreams are one [and the same].
Verse Concepts
Listen very carefully: seven years of great abundance will come throughout all the land of Egypt;
Verse Concepts
Oxen » Kine illustrative » (lean,) of years of scarcity
but afterward seven years of famine and hunger will come, and [there will be such desperate need that] all the great abundance [of the previous years] will be forgotten in the land of Egypt [as if it never happened], and famine and destitution will ravage and destroy the land.
Verse Concepts
The seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years; and also the seven thin ears, dried up and scorched by the east wind, they are seven years of famine and hunger.
Verse Concepts
Then behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the Nile, ugly and gaunt and raw-boned, and stood by the fat cows on the bank of the Nile.
Verse Concepts
Oxen » Kine illustrative » Of proud and wealthy rulers
Who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
Who say to their husbands, “Bring [the wine] now, and let us drink!”