קוֹא
qôwʼ · ko
to vomit
Lexicon
Derivation: or קָיָה; (Jeremiah 25:27), a primitive root;
to vomit
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: spue (out), vomit (out, up, up again).
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to fasten and establish › strength, the leader
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to fasten and establish of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קוֹא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- itself vomiteth out1 · 13%
- spue not you out1 · 13%
- it, as it spued out1 · 13%
- therein, spue you not out1 · 13%
- and he shall vomit them up again1 · 13%
- shalt thou vomit up1 · 13%
- therewith, and vomit1 · 13%
- and it vomited out1 · 13%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.