Lexical Definition

‎קוֹא‎ qôwʼ (ko) to vomit ^H:V
or קָיָה qâyâh (kaw-yaw'); (Jeremiah 25:27), a primitive root

spue (out), vomit (out, up, up again).

• to vomit

1) to vomit up, spue out, disgorge
1a) (Qal) to vomit
1b) (Hiphil) to vomit up
1b1) of land spewing out its inhabitants (fig)
1b2) vomiting, disgorging

See Greek: ἐκβάλλω · προσοχθίζω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎קִיא‎ Nö^{ZMG xxxvii (1883), 539}] verb vomit up, spue out, disgorge (Late Hebrew id., Hiph`il; Assyrian ‡â°u, spit Meissn^Suppl.83; Arabic vomit; Ethiopic [] vomit); —

Qal Participle f. ‎קָאָה‎ Lev 18:28, but read probably ‎קָ֫אָה‎ Perfect 3 feminine singular (Di Baen); Imperfect (Qal or Hiph`il) 3 masculine singular ‎וַיָּקֵא‎ Jonah 2:11*, suffix ‎וַיְקִיאֶנוּ‎ Job 20:15 3 feminine singular ‎תָּקִיא‎ Lev 18:28; Lev 20:22, ‎וַתָּקִא‎ Lev 18:25 2 masculine singular Sf. ‎תְּקִיאֶנָּה‎ Prov 23:8 Hiph`il Perfect suffix consecutive ‎וַהֲקֵאתוֺ‎ Prov 25:16 all vomit up: — with accusative, literal Prov 23:8; Prov 25:16; Jonah 2:11* figurative of land casting out inhabitants Lev 18:25; Lev 18:28 (twice in verse); Lev 20:22 (all H); of disgorging riches Job 20:15.

[‎קָיָה‎] verb vomit (si vera lectio= ‎קיא‎, Ges^{«GKC:76h»§ 76h} Kö^{ii.1, 586}); —

Qal Imperative masculine plural ‎וּקֵיוּ‎Jer 25:27 Qr (Kt ‎וקוו‎), be drunken and vomit (? error for ‎וְקִיאוּ‎).

‎קִיטוֺר‎ see ‎קטר‎. ‎קִים‎, ‎קִימָה‎ see ‎קוּם‎. ‎קִימוֺשׁ‎ see ‎קִמּוֺשׂ‎

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