And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
Behold a vine was before me. In this dream processes of vegetation, as well as a series of human actions, are compressed into a brief space, which would take a long time to bring to completion (cf. Zechariah 4:2; Zechariah 4:12); because while the mental eye of the dreamer was contemplating the vine, it attained the successive stages of budding, blossoming, and producing ripe grapes х wªhiy' (H1931) kªporachat (H6524)] - and it was as if budding -
i.e., it appeared to bud х nitsah (H5322), singular, used collectively, it blossoms].