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- Riddle - n. - A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- Riddle - n. - A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- Riddle - v. t. - To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
- Riddle - v. t. - To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
- Riddle - n. - Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
- Riddle - v. t. - To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
- Riddle - v. i. - To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- Riddled - imp. & p. p. - of Riddle
- Riddler - n. - One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
- Riddler - n. - One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
- Riddle - v. t. - To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
- Conundrum - n. - A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.
- Guess - v. t. - To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
- Ruddle - n. - A riddle or sieve.
- Quiz - n. - A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
- Riddling - a. - Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
- Screen - n. - A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
- Rebus - n. - A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.
- Logogriph - n. - A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.
- Areed - v. t. - To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream.
- Unriddle - v. t. & i. - To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.
- Rudder - n. - A riddle or sieve.
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- H263 אַחֲוָה - 263 אַחֲוָה - אַחֲוָה - - ʼachăvâh - akh-av-aw' - (Aramaic) corresponding to אַחְוָה; solution (of riddles); showing. - Noun Feminine - arc
- H284 אֲחִיחֻד - 284 אֲחִיחֻד - אֲחִיחֻד - - ʼĂchîychud - akh-ee-khood' - from אָח and חוּד; brother of a riddle (i.e. mysterious); Achichud, an Israelite; Ahihud. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H2281 חָבֵת - 2281 חָבֵת - חָבֵת - - châbêth - khaw-bayth' - from an unused root probably meaning to cook (compare מַחֲבַת); something fried, probably a griddle-cake; pan. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H2420 חִידָה - 2420 חִידָה - חִידָה - - chîydâh - khee-daw' - from חוּד; a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim; dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H2330 חוּד - 2330 חוּד - חוּד - - chûwd - khood - a primitive root; properly, to tie a knot, i.e. (figuratively) to propound a riddle; put forth. - Verb - heb
- H7001 קְטַר - 7001 קְטַר - קְטַר - - qᵉṭar - ket-ar' - (Aramaic) from a root corresponding to קָטַר; a knot (as tied up), i.e. (figuratively) a riddle; also a vertebra (as if a knot); doubt, joint. - Noun Masculine - arc
- G4617 σινιάζω - 4617 σινιάζω - ΣΙΝΙΆΖΩ - - siniázō - sin-ee-ad'-zo - from (a sieve); to riddle (figuratively):--sift. - Verb - greek
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- Judges 7 14:16 - And 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?
ותבך אשׁת שׁמשׁון עליו ותאמר רק־שׂנאתני ולא אהבתני החידה חדת לבני עמי ולי לא הגדתה ויאמר לה הנה לאבי ולאמי לא הגדתי ולך אגיד - Judges 7 14:17 - And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted : and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
ותבך עליו שׁבעת הימים אשׁר־היה להם המשׁתה ויהי ביום השׁביעי ויגד־לה כי הציקתהו ותגד החידה לבני עמה - Judges 7 14:12 - 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 :
ויאמר להם שׁמשׁון אחודה־נא לכם חידה אמ־הגד תגידו אותה לי שׁבעת ימי המשׁתה ומצאתם ונתתי לכם שׁלשׁים סדינים ושׁלשׁים חלפת בגדים
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- Judges 7 14:18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
אֱנוֹשׁ עִיר אָמַר שְׁבִיעִי יוֹם חֶרֶס בּוֹא מָתוֹק דְּבַשׁ עַז אֲרִי אָמַר לוּלֵא חָרַשׁ עֶגְלָה מָצָא חִידָה - Judges 7 14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
בָּכָה שֶׁבַע יוֹם מִשְׁתֶּה הָיָה שְׁבִיעִי יוֹם נָגַד צוּק נָגַד חִידָה בֵּן עַם - Judges 7 14:12 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:
שִׁמְשׁוֹן אָמַר חוּד חִידָה נָגַד נָגַד שֶׁבַע יוֹם מִשְׁתֶּה מָצָא נָתַן שְׁלוֹשִׁים סָדִין שְׁלוֹשִׁים חֲלִיפָה בֶּגֶד - Judges 7 14:13 But 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.
יָכֹל נָגַד נָתַן שְׁלוֹשִׁים סָדִין שְׁלוֹשִׁים חֲלִיפָה בֶּגֶד אָמַר חוּד חִידָה שָׁמַע - Judges 7 14:19 And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
רוּחַ יְהֹוָה צָלַח יָרַד אַשְׁקְלוֹן נָכָה שְׁלוֹשִׁים אִישׁ לָקַח חֲלִיצָה נָתַן חֲלִיפָה נָגַד חִידָה אַף חָרָה עָלָה אָב בַּיִת