To vomit
קִיאStrong’s H6958qo
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qo is the Hebrew word usually translated “it vomited up”, “it will vomit up” and “has vomited up it”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.”
Meaning
- To vomit up, spue out, disgorge(Qal) to vomit · (Hiphil) to vomit up
How it's translated
- and it vomited up 2
- it will vomit up 2
- it vomited up 1
- and he has vomited up it 1
- you will vomit up it 1
- and you will vomit up it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Proverbs 2
- Job 1
- Jonah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 18:28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
- Leviticus 20:22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
- Job 20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
- Proverbs 23:8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
- Proverbs 25:16Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
- Jonah 2:10And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Hebrew dictionary
קִיא qo · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vomit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VOM'IT, verb intransitive
[Latin vomo. probably the Gr. is the same word, with the loss of its first letter.]
All definitions and other forms of “vomit”
VOM'IT, verb transitive
- To throw up or eject from the stomach; to discharge from the stomach through the mouth.“The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land” Jonah 2:10
- To eject with violence from any hollow place.
VOM'IT, noun
- The matter ejected from the stomach.
- That which excites the stomach to discharge its contents; an emetic.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.