Riddle

1. Puzzle, riddle

• the riddle 5
• a riddle 2
• riddle my 2
• by difficult matters 2
• riddles 2
• by riddles 1
• riddle your 1
• and parables their 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Judges 8
• Psalms 2
• Numbers 1
• 1 Kings 1
• 2 Chronicles 1
• Proverbs 1

9 books in all.

• To riddle (chud)
• Riddle (achidah)

• Numbers 12:8With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
• Judges 14:12And 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:
• 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 14:14And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
• Judges 14:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
• 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?

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “riddle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.