And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stock:

And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them;

and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

Likewise, another seven, thin and struck with blight, rose up from the stalk.

Et ecce item septem spicae parvae et tenues, percussae Euro germinabant post eas.

And, behold, seven ears withered,.... Here a new epithet of the bad ears is given, and expressed by a word nowhere else used, which Ben Melech interprets, small, little, according to the use of the word in the Misnah; Aben Ezra, void, empty, such as had no grains of corn in them, nothing but husk or chaff, and observes that some render it images; for the word is so used in the Arabic language, and may signify that these ears were only mere shadows or images of ears, which had no substance in them: Jarchi says, the word, in the Syriac language signifies a rock, and so it denotes that these ears were dry as a rock, and had no moisture in them, laid dried, burnt up, and blasted with the east wind.

blasted with the east wind--destructive everywhere to grain, but particularly so in Egypt; where, sweeping over the sandy deserts of Arabia, it comes in the character of a hot, blighting wind, that quickly withers all vegetation (compare Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 13:15).