Genesis 41:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

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  • Gen 41:6 : 6 Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
  • Ps 129:6-7 : 6 May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up, 7 which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
  • Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim will be struck down– their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.
  • Hos 13:15 : 15 The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 41:2-8
    7 verses
    95%

    2seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

    3Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.

    4The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

    5Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

    6Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

    7The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.

    8In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

  • Gen 41:18-22
    5 verses
    89%

    18Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

    19Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!

    20The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.

    21When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

    22I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.

  • Gen 41:24-31
    8 verses
    85%

    24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”

    25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,“Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

    26The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.

    27The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent seven years of famine.

    28This is just what I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

    29Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.

    30But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.

    31The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

  • Ezek 17:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

    11Then LORD’s message came to me:

  • Joel 1:17
    70%

    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Hos 8:7
    70%

    7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

  • Amos 7:1
    69%

    1Symbolic Visions of Judgment The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout.(The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)

  • Gen 41:47
    69%

    47During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.

  • Gen 37:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:

    7There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!”

  • Gen 40:10
    69%

    10On the vine there were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

  • Isa 37:27
    69%

    27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Luke 8:7
    68%

    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked it.

  • Exod 9:31
    68%

    31(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.

  • Matt 13:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

    7Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

  • Ezek 19:12
    68%

    12But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered– a fire consumed them.

  • Hos 13:15
    67%

    15The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.

  • Gen 41:36
    67%

    36This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”

  • Mark 4:6
    67%

    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

  • Isa 27:8
    67%

    8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

  • Gen 41:54
    67%

    54Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

  • Matt 13:26
    67%

    26When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel also appeared.