1. חִידָה
riddle, enigmatic, perplexing saying, question
The corpus record — Hebrew
בְחִידֹ֔ת
chiydah · n.f
riddle, enigmatic, perplexing saying, question
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 17 · 0.55/10k
Senses
2. חִידָה
a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim
Attestations
- בְ/חִידֹ֔ת Numbers 12:8 (BHS)
- חִידָ֑ה Judges 14:12 (BHS)
- חִידָתְ/ךָ֖ Judges 14:13 (BHS)
- הַ/חִידָ֖ה Judges 14:14 (BHS)
- הַ֣/חִידָ֔ה Judges 14:15 (BHS)
- הַֽ/חִידָ֥ה Judges 14:16 (BHS)
6 of 17 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.