Genesis 41:21
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And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,

eaten them up.

Ezekiel 3:3 And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be filled with this book, which I give thee, and I did eat it: and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

Revelation 10:9,10 And I went to the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the book. And he said to me: Take the book and eat it up. And it shall make thy belly bitter: but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. . . .

still.

Psalm 37:19 They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be filled:

Isaiah 9:20 And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shall eat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be against Juda.

Context
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams
20And they devoured and consumed the former, 21And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,22And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair.…
Cross References
Genesis 41:3
Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:

Genesis 41:20
And they devoured and consumed the former,

Genesis 41:22
And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair.

Lexicon
When they had devoured
וַתָּבֹ֣אנָה (wat·tā·ḇō·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

them, however,
קִרְבֶּ֗נָה (qir·be·nāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7130: The nearest part, the center

no one could
וְלֹ֤א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

tell
נוֹדַע֙ (nō·w·ḏa‘)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

that
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

they had [done so];
בָ֣אוּ (ḇā·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

their appearance
וּמַרְאֵיהֶ֣ן (ū·mar·’ê·hen)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4758: Sight, appearance, vision

was as ugly
רַ֔ע (ra‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil

as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

it had been before.
בַּתְּחִלָּ֑ה (bat·tə·ḥil·lāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8462: A commencement, rel, original

Then I awoke.
וָאִיקָֽץ׃ (wā·’î·qāṣ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3364: To awake


Additional Translations
When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

And they went into their bellies; and it was not perceptible that they had gone into their bellies, and their appearance was ill-favoured, as also at the beginning; and after I awoke I slept,

and they came into their belly, and it could not be known that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke.

and 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.

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance is bad as at the commencement; and I awake.
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