And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
There came up out of the river. Cows, now of the buffalo kind, are seen daily plunging into the Nile; when their huge form is gradually emerging, they seem as if rising "out of the river."
Fed in a meadow, х baa'aachuw (H260); Septuagint, en too achei] - cf. Job 8:11 - Nile grass, the aquatic plants that grow on the marshy banks of that river, particularly the lotus kind; on which cattle were usually fattened.