verb
emamō
Strong’sG1692
I vomit forth
stem em-once in the New Testament1 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἐμέω, -ῶ
[in LXX: Is 19:14 (קֵא)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1692 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidem-eh'-o
to vomit
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King James(will) spue.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 8th c.BC+, imperfect ἤμουν Refs 5th c.BC+, Ionic dialect ἤμεον Refs 5th c.BC+: future ἐμέσω Refs 5th c.BC+: future middle ἐμέομαι Refs 5th c.BC+: aorist ἤμεσα Refs 5th c.BC+, infinitive ἐμέσαι Refs 5th c.BC+; Epic dialect ἔμεσσα (ἀπ-) Refs 8th c.BC+; ὑπερ-έμησα occurs in the Mss. of Refs 5th c.BC+: perfect ἐμήμεκα Refs 2nd c.AD+: pluperfect ἐμημέκεε Refs 5th c.BC+ —passive, future ἐμεθήσομαι (ἐξ-) LXX: aorist infinitive ἐμεθῆναι Refs 2nd c.AD+: perfect ἐμήμεσμαι Refs 2nd c.AD+:—vomit, throw up, αἷμ᾽ ἐμέων Refs 8th c.BC+: absolutely, vomit, be sick, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. πτίλῳ to make oneself sick with a feather, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, throw up a flood of words, Refs 5th c.BC+, cf. Sanskrit vámiti 'vomit', Latin vomo, vomitus, Lithuanian vémti, etc.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.
| Form and the Greek behind it | What it is | Usually | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| emaraἐμέσαι | happened · the “to …” formaorist active infinitive | spit | 1× |
Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.
Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses
Statements — indicative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | was happening imperfect | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect | had happened pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | emamō | emame | emami | emama | emamē | emamelē |
| you 2nd person singular | emasō | emase | emasi | emasa | emasē | emaselē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | ematō | emate | emati | emata | ematē | ematelē |
| we 1st person plural | emanō | emane | emani | emana | emanē | emanelē |
| ye 2nd person plural | emavō | emave | emavi | emava | emavē | emavelē |
| they 3rd person plural | emalō | emale | emali | emala | emalē | emalelē |
May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | emameiō | emameia | emameiē |
| you 2nd person singular | emaseiō | emaseia | emaseiē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | emateiō | emateia | emateiē |
| we 1st person plural | emaneiō | emaneia | emaneiē |
| ye 2nd person plural | emaveiō | emaveia | emaveiē |
| they 3rd person plural | emaleiō | emaleia | emaleiē |
Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| you 2nd person singular | emasōr | emasar | emasēr |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | ematōr | ematar | ematēr |
| ye 2nd person plural | emavōr | emavar | emavēr |
| they 3rd person plural | emalōr | emalar | emalēr |
Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist |
|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | emamoiō | emamoia |
| you 2nd person singular | emasoiō | emasoia |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | ematoiō | ematoia |
| we 1st person plural | emanoiō | emanoia |
| ye 2nd person plural | emavoiō | emavoia |
| they 3rd person plural | emaloiō | emaloia |
The “to …” form — infinitive, 1 occurrence
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | emarō | emari | emara1×ἐμέσαι | emarē |
Used as an adjective — participle, no occurrences
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | emarōntos | emarintos | emarantos | emarēntos |
Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.
How every form is built — the slots that make them
em is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
emara“spit”happened · the “to …” formaorist active infinitive1×
Revelation 3:16“spit”… oute zestos oute psuchros, mellamō sin emara ek teu stomeu mu.… are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!