New Revised Standard Version
and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.

Contemporary English Version
Suddenly, seven fat, healthy cows came up from the river and started eating grass along the bank.

New American Bible
when up out of the Nile came seven cows, fine-looking and fat; they grazed in the reed grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

there came.

Genesis 41:17-27 So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river, . . .

a meadow.

Job 8:11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

); so called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things together, from {achah,} to join, connect: thus the Latin {juncus,} a bulrush, a {jungendo,} from joining, for the same reason. He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near the Nile which Hasselquist describes as having scarce any branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth, channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven feet high. The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves.