קוֹא qôwʼ — (Jeremiah 25:27), a primitive root
Translated in the KJV as spue, vomit (out, up, up again).
or קָיָה; (Jeremiah 25:27), a primitive root; to vomit.
qôwʼ in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 1
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before 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 ›