1) riddle, difficult question, parable, enigmatic saying or question, perplexing saying or question 1a) riddle (dark obscure utterance) 1b) riddle, enigma (to be guessed) 1c) perplexing questions (difficult) 1d) double dealing (with 'havin') Aramaic equivalent: a.chi.dah (אֲחִידָה "riddle" H0280)
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H2420 — חִידָה
chi.dah · riddle · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Numbers 12:8 · בְחִידֹ֔תWith him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”Judges 14:12 · חִידָ֑הSamson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;Judges 14:13 · חִידָתְךָ֖but if you can’t declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.”Judges 14:14 · הַחִידָ֖הHe said to them, “Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the strong came forth sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.Judges 14:15 · הַ֣חִידָ֔הIt happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?”Judges 14:16 · הַֽחִידָ֥הSamson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”Judges 14:17 · הַחִידָ֖הShe wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.Judges 14:18 · חִידָתִֽי׃The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”Judges 14:19 · הַחִידָ֑הThe Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.1 Kings 10:1 · בְּחִידֽוֹת׃When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.2 Chronicles 9:1 · בְחִיד֜וֹתWhen the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.Psalm 49:4 · חִידָתִֽי׃I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.Psalm 78:2 · חִ֝יד֗וֹתI will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,Proverbs 1:6 · וְחִידֹתָֽם׃to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.Daniel 8:23 · חִידֽוֹת׃In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.Habakkuk 2:6 · חִיד֣וֹתWon’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’