# H2420 חִידָה

חִידָה (chîydâh), Strong’s H2420: a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim KJV: dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle.. Occurs 17 times.

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*chîydâh* — a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim

KJV: dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle.

Derived from [חוּד chûwd](https://besorah.bible/word/H2330) (to tie a knot)

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חִידָה n.f. riddle, enigmatic, perplexing saying or question
- 1 riddle = dark, obscure utterance
- 2 riddle, enigma, to be guessed
- 3 perplexing questions by which queen of Sheba put Sol. to the test
- 4 skilled in double-dealing

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/12?v=8) — With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the LORD’s form. Why then…
- [Judges 14:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=12) — Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast…
- [Judges 14:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=13) — but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They…
- [Judges 14:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=14) — He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days…
- [Judges 14:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=15) — On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we…
- [Judges 14:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=16) — Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of…
- [Judges 14:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=17) — She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed…
- [Judges 14:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=18) — The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is…
- [Judges 14:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=19) — The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their…
- [1 Kings 10:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/10?v=1) — When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the LORD’s name, she came to test him with hard…