Genesis 41:21

21 But after they swallowed them whole, no one would have known it. They looked just as bad as they had before. Then I woke up.

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 Just then, seven other cows, weak and frail and thin, climbed up after them. I've never seen such awful cows in all the land of Egypt.

20 Then the thin, frail cows devoured the first seven, fattened cows.

21 But after they swallowed them whole, no one would have known it. They looked just as bad as they had before. Then I woke up.

22 I went to sleep again and saw in my dream seven full and healthy ears of grain growing on one stalk.

23 Just then, seven hard and thin ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them,