To vomit
קָיָהStrong’s H7006qayah (qa-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qayah is the Hebrew word usually translated “vomit”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to vomit, vomit up, disgorge
How it's translated
- and vomit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קָיָה qayah · to vomit
(Qal) to vomit, vomit up, disgorge
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.