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title: קִיא — vomit up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִיא (7006), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: vomit up. BDB 1906: vb. vomit up, spue out, disgorge. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִיא

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«קִיא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **vomit up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 7006 · **BDB:** קִיא

### Glosses

it.vomited.up (2); it.will.vomit.up (2); you (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִיא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7006/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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