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(Heb. hodah). This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Study overview
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
riddle, enigmatic, perplexing saying, question, dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
riddle, hard sentence.
Greek lexical coverage
The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 10
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Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 3
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Nave's Topical Bible
Indexed references: 2
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Topic
Nave’s Topical Bible references for RIDDLE.
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a riddle; sharpness of wit
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(Heb. hodah). The oldest and, strictly speaking, the only example of a riddle was that propounded by Samson (Judg. 14:12-18). The parabolic prophecy in Ezek. 17:2-18 is there called a "riddle." It was rather, however, an allegory. The word "darkly" in 1 Cor. 13:12 is the rendering of the Greek enigma; marg., "in a riddle."
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