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# קֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6892

**what is vomited up** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

what is vomited up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6892/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵא²: what is vomited up, vomit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6892/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] what is vomited up, vomit (v. BaNB 79);—sf. קֵאוֹ Pr 26:11 (of dog).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: vomit (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.11/#tree)

כְּ֭כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל־קֵא֑וֹ כְּ֝סִ֗יל שׁוֹנֶ֥ה בְאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* like a.dog \[which\].returns to vomit its.own a.fool \[who\].repeats (in) foolishness his

*JPS 1917:* As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth his folly.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6892.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6892/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).