UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Related lemmas: קִיא

Sense 1: to vomit, to throw up

Semantic domains: Excrete (002001001026)

Core domains: Body (019); Food (069); Health and Sickness (076)

Definition: = action by which humans or animals empty their stomachs of its contents; ◄ after having eaten too much, having ingested contaminated food, or due to sickness or excessive alcohol consumption

Forms: vbqal-

Valencies: v

JER 25:27: RV JER 25:27 · LV JER 25:27 · Read together JER 25:27

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OET-RV JER 25:27

27 Then Yahweh told me to tell them, ‘Yisrael’s (Israel) god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, says this: Drink and become drunk, then vomit, fall down, and don’t get up again until the deadly army arrives that I’m sending among you.’

OET-LV JER 25:27

27 And_you _will _say to_them thus YHWH soldiers/messengers the _god _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) he _says drink and_become _drunk and_vomit and_fall _down and_not you(pl)_will _rise from_face/in _front _of the_drought//sword/knife which I am_about _to _send between_you.

Sense 2: to vomit up (something specific)

Semantic domains: Excrete (002001001026)

Core domains: Body (019); Food (069); Health and Sickness (076)

Definition: = action by which humans or animals vomit up something specific from their stomachs

Forms: vbhif-

Valencies: v X

PRO 23:8: RV PRO 23:8 · LV PRO 23:8 · Read together PRO 23:8

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OET-RV PRO 23:8

8 You’ll vomit up the bit that you’ve eaten
⇔ and your pleasant greetings will have been wasted.

OET-LV PRO 23:8

8 Of _bread_of_your _piece which_you _have _eaten you_will _vomit _it _up and_you _will _spoil words/messages _of_your (the)_pleasant.

PRO 25:16: RV PRO 25:16 · LV PRO 25:16 · Read together PRO 25:16

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OET-RV PRO 25:16

16 When you find honey, eat just what you need,
⇔ otherwise you might vomit if you’ve had too much.

OET-LV PRO 25:16

16 Honey you _have _found eat sufficiency _of_your lest you_should _be _surfeited _with _it and_you_will _vomit _it _up.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

PRO: RV PRO 23:8 · RV PRO 25:16 · LV PRO 23:8 · LV PRO 25:16 · Read together PRO 23:8 · Read together PRO 25:16

JNA: RV JNA 2:10 · LV JNA 2:11 · Read together JNA 2:10

Sense 3: to vomit > lose (one's wealth as punishment)

Semantic domains: Non-Possess (002003002019)

Core domains: Possession (128); Wealth and Poverty (192); Recompense (140)

Definition: literally: to vomit; hence: = process by which humans lose their possessions in an unpleasant way

Forms: vbhif-

Valencies: v X

JOB 20:15: RV JOB 20:15 · LV JOB 20:15 · Read together JOB 20:15

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OET-RV JOB 20:15

15 They swallow up wealth but then vomit it up.
⇔ ≈ God forces it out of their stomachs.

OET-LV JOB 20:15

15 Wealth he _swallows and_he_has _vomited _it _up from_belly _of_his he_drives _it _out god.

Sense 4: to vomit > to expel (its people because of their sin)

Semantic domains: Move (002002001011)

Core domains: Land (097); Nation (114); Recompense (140)

Definition: literally: to vomit; hence: = causative action by which land refuses to allow people to remain as if they were contaminated food

Forms: vbqal-; vbhif-

Valencies: v

LEV 18:25: RV LEV 18:25 · LV LEV 18:25 · Read together LEV 18:25

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OET-RV LEV 18:25

25 The land had become ‘unclean’ so I made them pay for their wickedness and so the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

OET-LV LEV 18:25

25 And_ the_earth/land _it _became _unclean and_I _visited iniquity _of_its on/upon_it(f) and_ the_earth/land _it _vomited _up DOM inhabitants _of_its.

LEV 18:28: RV LEV 18:28 · LV LEV 18:28 · Read together LEV 18:28

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OET-RV LEV 18:28

28 Don’t think that the land won’t vomit you all out just like it’s doing to the people groups that have been there before you,

OET-LV LEV 18:28

28 And_not the_earth/land it _will _vomit _up you(pl) when_you_make _unclean DOM_her/it just_as it_was_vomiting _up DOM the_nation which was_before _of_you(pl).

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

LEV: RV LEV 18:25 · RV LEV 18:28 · RV LEV 20:22 · LV LEV 18:25 · LV LEV 18:28 · LV LEV 20:22 · Read together LEV 18:25 · Read together LEV 18:28 · Read together LEV 20:22

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

קיא

Form 1

Sense 1: to vomit, to throw up

Sense 2: to vomit up (something specific)

Sense 3: to vomit > lose (one's wealth as punishment)

Sense 4: to vomit > to expel (its people because of their sin)