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# קִיא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7006

**vomit up** — used 9 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 up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7006/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִיא: vb. vomit up, spue out, disgorge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7006/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. vomit up, spue out, disgorge (NH id., Hiph.; Assyrian ḳâʾu, spit MeissnSuppl. 83; Arabic قَاءَ vomit; Ethiopic \[\[ቀይአ

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it vomited up (2); it will vomit up (2); you (2).

## In the verses

[Job 20:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.15/#tree)

חַ֣יִל בָּ֭לַע וַיְקִאֶ֑נּוּ מִ֝בִּטְנ֗וֹ יוֹרִשֶׁ֥נּוּ אֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* wealth he.swallows and he has.vomited.it.up from belly his he drives.it.out God

*JPS 1917:* He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.

[Proverbs 23:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.8/#tree)

פִּֽתְּךָ־אָכַ֥לְתָּ תְקִיאֶ֑נָּה וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ הַנְּעִימִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[of.bread\] your.piece \[which\].you.have.eaten you will.vomit.it.up and you.will.spoil words your (the) pleasant

*JPS 1917:* The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7006.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7006/): 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).