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Riddle

(Heb. hodah). This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H2420, H0280
Hebrew
חִידָה · chîydâh

Strong’s and original-language information

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

חִידָה

H2420
Transliteration
chîydâh
Pronunciation
khee-daw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
17

Glosses

riddle, enigmatic, perplexing saying, question, dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle.

Lexicon definition

a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

G—

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.

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Riddle

(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."

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Riddle

Indexed occurrences: 10

Source: Strong's Concordance · View data sources

Strong's Concordance

Riddles

Indexed occurrences: 3

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All Scripture references20 references

Topical Bible

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Ancient Context1 items
Related UNLEARN Content3 items

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