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# חוּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2330

**propound a riddle** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

propound a riddle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2330/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוּד: vb.denom. propound riddle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2330/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. propound a riddle;— Pf. 2 ms. חַדְתָּה Ju 14:16; Impf. אָח֫וּדָה Ju 14:12; Imv. (חִידָה וּמְשֹׁל מָשָׁל) חוּד Ez 17:2; חוּ֫דָה Ju 14:13; always c. חידה acc. cogn.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ask (1); ask a riddle (1); let me ask a riddle (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 17:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.2/#tree)

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם ח֥וּד חִידָ֖ה וּמְשֹׁ֣ל מָשָׁ֑ל אֶל־בֵּ֖ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* O.son of.humankind ask.a.riddle a.riddle and speak.a.parable a.parable concerning the.house of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* 'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,

[Judges 14:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.13/#tree)

וְאִם־לֹ֣א תוּכְלוּ֮ לְהַגִּ֣יד לִי֒ וּנְתַתֶּ֨ם אַתֶּ֥ם לִי֙ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים סְדִינִ֔ים וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים חֲלִיפ֣וֹת בְּגָדִ֑ים וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ ל֔וֹ ח֥וּדָה חִידָתְךָ֖ וְנִשְׁמָעֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* and if not you.will.be.able to tell to me and you.will.give you to me thirty linen.garments and thirty changes of.garments and they.said to him ask the.riddle riddle your so that we.may.hear.it

*JPS 1917:* but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2330.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2330/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).