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# קִיא

Biblical Hebrew

**vomit** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

vomit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִיא²: n.m. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id. (v. BaNB 80);—abs. ק׳ Is 28:8; sf. קִיאוֹ Is 19:14 (sim.); fig. Je 48:26 (of Moab).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: vomit (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.8/#tree)

כִּ֚י כָּל־שֻׁלְחָנ֔וֹת מָלְא֖וּ קִ֣יא צֹאָ֑ה בְּלִ֖י מָקֽוֹם׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) all \[the\].tables they.are.full vomit filth not room

*JPS 1917:* For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean.

[Jeremiah 48:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.26/#tree)

הַשְׁכִּירֻ֕הוּ כִּ֥י עַל־יְהוָ֖ה הִגְדִּ֑יל וְסָפַ֤ק מוֹאָב֙ בְּקִיא֔וֹ וְהָיָ֥ה לִשְׂחֹ֖ק גַּם־הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* make it.drunk (dm) on Yahweh it.has.magnified.itself and it.will.splash Moab in vomit its and it.will.become (into).a laughing-stock also it

*JPS 1917:* Make ye him drunken, for he magnified himself against the LORD; and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5d9_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5d9_5d0/): 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).