Genesis 41:20
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
And the leane, & the ill fauoured kine, did eate vp the first seuen fat kine.
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Genesis 41:20
Sense 1: Thin, spare, poor, meagre, or lacking richness and abundance. Sense 2: To rest, incline, or bear weight upon a support. Sense 3: By figure, to depend, trust, or rely upon someone or something.
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Bad, evil, harmful, unfavorable, or disagreeable; badly or wrongly, according to the phrase.
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Cows; mature female cattle.
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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.
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1. The rich oily bodily substance of an animal. 2. Rich, fertile, abundant, prosperous, or flourishing. 3. Well-fed, plump, or full-bodied. 4. The richest or choicest part or produce of something. 5. Figuratively, dull, insensible, or hardened.
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19And, 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:
19And behold, seuen other kine came vp after them, poore and very ill fauoured, and leane fleshed, such as I neuer saw in all the land of Egypt for badnes.
20And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
20And the leane, & the ill fauoured kine, did eate vp the first seuen fat kine.
Selected passage21And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
21And when they had †eaten them vp, it could not bee knowen that they had eaten them, but they were still ill fauoured, as at the beginning: So I awoke.