H7006 H7006
to vomit (possibly a textual variant of the standard form)
A verb meaning to vomit, appearing in Jeremiah 25:27 with unusual spelling. The Ketiv (written text) has one form, the Qere (read text) has another, with this entry representing the Qere reading. The context is God's command through Jeremiah: 'Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more.' The variant spellings likely reflect dialectical or scribal differences rather than semantic distinctions. The imagery is brutal—nations drinking God's cup of wrath until they retch and collapse.
Senses
1. sense 1 — To vomit or spew out, used in Jeremiah's vivid metaphor of nations forced to drink God's cup of judgment. The imperative form ('and vomit!') intensifies the degrading imagery: nations will be so overwhelmed by divine wrath that they lose all control, vomiting like drunkards. Some translations leave the form untransliterated due to textual variants, but Spanish 'vomitad' captures the crude physicality. The verb's appearance in judgment oracles emphasizes the visceral, humiliating nature of experiencing God's anger—not abstract punishment but embodied disgrace. 1×
AR["وَ-تَقَيَّأُوا"]·ben["আর-বমি-কর"]·DE["[וקיו]"]·EN["and-vomit"]·FR["[וקיו]"]·heb["ו-קיאו"]·HI["और-उलटी-करो"]·ID["dan-muntahkanlah"]·IT["[וקיו]"]·jav["lan-mutah-a"]·KO["그리고-토하라"]·PT["e-vomitai"]·RU["и-изрыгайте"]·ES["y-vomitad"]·SW["na-mtapike"]·TR["ve-kusun"]·urd["اور-قی-کرو"]
Related Senses
H7200 1. Qal: to see, perceive (1257×)G4771 2. you (singular address) (1077×)H8085 1. Qal: hear, perceive aurally (921×)H0859a 1. you (2nd person masculine singular pronoun) (743×)H0398 1. eat (consume food) (697×)H4191 1. die (Qal: natural/general death) (645×)G3708 1. see, perceive visually (419×)G0191 1. hear, perceive sound (360×)H???? 3. (352×)G3708 2. behold, look (exclamatory) (256×)H7272 1. foot (body part) (236×)H8354 1. drink, consume liquid (209×)H3205 1. Qal active: bear/give birth (female subject) (204×)H3205 2. Qal active: beget/father (male subject) (198×)H2421 1. Qal: live, be alive (177×)H8085 2. Qal: listen, heed, pay attention (172×)H2416a 1. alive, living (state/attribute) (146×)H2416e 1. life, lifespan, lifetime (145×)G2198 1. be alive, have life (133×)H8193 1. lip, lips (body part) (123×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [קָיָה] vb. vomit (si vera l. = קיא, Ges§ 76 h Köii. 1, 586);— Qal Imv. mpl. וּקְיוּ Je 25:27 Qr (Kt וקוו), be drunken and vomit (? error for וְקִיאוּ).