Verse 2
2. Seven well favoured kine Hebrews, seven heifers beautiful in appearance . “The Egyptians esteemed the cow above all other animals . It was sacred to Isis, (Herod . 2:41,) or rather to Athor, the Venus Genetrix of Egypt, and was looked on as a symbol of the earth and its cultivation and food . Hence it was very natural that in Pharaoh’s dream the fruitful and unfruitful years should be typified by well favoured and ill favoured kine . ” Speaker’s Com.
In a meadow Rather, in the marsh grass, ( אחו . )
The word is of Egyptian origin, and signifies, according to Gesenius, “marsh-grass, reeds, bulrushes, sedge, every thing which grows in wet grounds. The word was adopted not only into the Hebrew, but also into the Greek idiom of Alexandria.” The Sept. does not translate the word, but reads, εν τω αχει .
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