“And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:”
The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. The retelling of the consuming is Pharaoh's emphasis of the central disturbing image. The application: the images that the dreamer emphasizes in retelling are the images most significant to the dream's meaning.
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