Genesis 41:21

21 but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had done so, for they were still as ugly as before. Then I awoke.

Genesis 41:21 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 41:21

And when they had eaten them up
Or "were come into their bowels" ^F11, into their inward parts, their bellies, being swallowed and devoured by them: it could not be known that they had eaten them:
or were in their bellies, they seemed never the fuller nor the fatter for them: but they [were] still ill favoured as at the beginning;
looked as thin and as meagre as they did when they first came out of the river, or were first seen by Pharaoh: so I awoke;
surprised at what he had seen; this was his first dream.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (hnbrq la hnabtw) "et venerunt ad interiora earum", Pagninus, Montanus; "in ventrem istarum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Tigurine version.

Genesis 41:21 In-Context

19 Then seven other cows came up after them, poor, very ugly, and thin. Never had I seen such ugly ones in all the land of Egypt.

20 The thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows,

21 but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had done so, for they were still as ugly as before. Then I awoke.

22 I fell asleep a second time and I saw in my dream seven ears of grain, full and good, growing on one stalk,

23 and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouting after them;