Strong H6958קִיא
to vomit
- Transliteration
- qô' qâyâh
- Pronunciation
- {ko} kaw-yaw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to vomit: - spue ({out}) vomit ({out} {up} up again).
Detailed definition
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
1a) (Qal) to vomit
1b) (Hiphil) to vomit up
1b1) of land spewing out its inhabitants (fig)
1b2) vomiting, disgorging
In the Bible
Strong H6958 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- vomit4
- spue3
- vomiteth1
First verses
- Leviticus 18:25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
- 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.