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title: קִיא — vomit · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִיא (lemma:קִיא), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: vomit. BDB 1906: n.m. id. 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** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:קִיא · **BDB:** קִיא²

### Glosses

vomit (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

vomit [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id. (v. BaNB 80);—abs. ק׳ Is 28:8; sf. קִיאוֹ Is 19:14 (sim.); fig. Je 48:26 (of Moab).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִיא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b4_5d9_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 28:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.8/)

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כִּ֚י כָּל־שֻׁלְחָנ֔וֹת מָלְא֖וּ קִ֣יא צֹאָ֑ה בְּלִ֖י מָקֽוֹם׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) all \[the\].tables they.are.full vomit filth not room

*JPS 1917:* For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean.

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[Jeremiah 48:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.26/)

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הַשְׁכִּירֻ֕הוּ כִּ֥י עַל־יְהוָ֖ה הִגְדִּ֑יל וְסָפַ֤ק מוֹאָב֙ בְּקִיא֔וֹ וְהָיָ֥ה לִשְׂחֹ֖ק גַּם־הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* make it.drunk (dm) on Yahweh it.has.magnified.itself and it.will.splash Moab in vomit its and it.will.become (into).a laughing-stock also it

*JPS 1917:* Make ye him drunken, for he magnified himself against the LORD; and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

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