To riddle
חוּדStrong’s H2330chud
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chud is the Hebrew word usually translated “let me ask a riddle”, “ask riddle” and “have asked riddle”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:”
Meaning
- (Qal) to propose a riddle, propound a riddle
How it's translated
- let me ask a riddle 1
- ask riddle 1
- you have asked riddle 1
- ask a riddle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 3
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 14:13But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
- Judges 14:16And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
- Ezekiel 17:2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Hebrew dictionary
חוּד chud · to riddle
(Qal) to propose a riddle, propound a riddle
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 The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle ]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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.