קָיָה qâyâh — to vomit
Translated in the KJV as spue.
a primitive root; to vomit.
qâyâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperative 1
וּקְי֔וּ Jer 25:27 Imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›