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קֵא

qe

vomit

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Strong’s H6892aNoun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

own vomit1

In the text

Proverbs 26:11קֵאוֹ
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[קֵא] n.[m.] what is vomited up, vomit;—sf. Pr 26:11 (of dog).

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.