Gen 41:1-7 | TSK | STEP | Pharaoh has two dreams. Joseph interprets them. He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married. The seven years of plenty. He begets children. The famine begins. A.M. 2289. B.C. 1715. two full years.{Shenathayim yamim,} "two years of days," two complete solar revolutions; as a month of days is a full month. that Pharaoh. the river.

Genesis 41:1-7

1 Pharaoh has two dreams.

9 Joseph interprets them.

33 He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married.

46 The seven years of plenty.

50 He begets children.

53 The famine begins.

A.M. 2289. B.C. 1715. two full years.{Shenathayim yamim,} "two years of days," two complete solar revolutions; as a month of days is a full month.

29:14

that Pharaoh.

20:3; 37:5-10; 40:5; Jud 7:13,14; Es 6:1; Job 33:15,16; Da 2:1-3

Da 4:5-18; 7:1-8:27; Mt 27:19

the river.

31:21; Ex 1:22; 4:9; De 11:10; Isa 19:5; Eze 29:3,9

there came.

17-27

a meadow.Or, rather, "on, or among the reeds or sedges;" for so {achoo} is generally supposed to denote (see Job 8:11); so called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things together, from {achah,} to join, connect: thus the Latin {juncus,} a bulrush, {a jungendo,} from joining, for the same reason. He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near the Nile which Hasselquist describes as "having scarce any branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth, channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven feet high. The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves."

ill favoured.

4,20,21

So Pharaoh awoke.

1Ki 3:15

seven ears.A species of wheat, which grows in Egypt, bears, when perfect, seven ears on one stalk, as its natural conformation. It differs from ours in having a solid stem, or at least a stem full of pith, in order to yield sufficient nourishment and support to so great a weight as the ears which it bears.

rank. Heb. fat.

De 32:14

blasted.

Eze 17:10; 19:12; Ho 13:15

a dream.

20:3; 37:5