Strong's #2420: chiydah (pronounced khee-daw')
from 2330; a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim:--dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chı̂ydâh
1) riddle, difficult question, parable, enigmatic saying or question, perplexing saying or question
1a) riddle (dark obscure utterance)
1b) riddle, enigma (to be guessed)
1c) perplexing questions (difficult)
1d) double dealing (with ' havin' )
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H2330
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
Numbers 12:8: "mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore"
Judges 14:12: "said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if it me within the seven"
Judges 14:13: "change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear"
Judges 14:14: "And they could not in three days expound the riddle."
Judges 14:15: "thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house"
Judges 14:16: "me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told"
Judges 14:17: "her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people."
Judges 14:18: "unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle."
Judges 14:19: "and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's"
1 Kings 10:1: "of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions."
2 Chronicles 9:1: "to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company,"
Psalms 49:4: "mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp."
Psalms 78:2: "my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of"
Proverbs 1:6: "and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings."
Ezekiel 17:2: "Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable the house"
Daniel 8:23: "of fierce and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up."
Habakkuk 2:6: "a parable against proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not"
