Riddle
אֲחִידָהStrong’s H0280achidah (a-chi-dah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Achidah is the Aramaic word usually translated “riddles”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.”
Meaning
- Puzzle, riddle
How it's translated
- riddles 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Aramaic dictionary
אֲחִידָה achidah · riddle
puzzle, riddle Aramaic of chi.dah (חִידָה "riddle" H2420)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “riddle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RID'DLE, noun
[See Cradle.]
All definitions and other forms of “riddle”
RID'DLE, verb transitive
To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. [Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle ]
RID'DLE, noun
[See Read.]
- An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14:12
- Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.
RID'DLE, verb transitive
To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper.
RID'DLE, verb intransitive
To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.