Hebrew verb · H2330
חוּד
chudkhood
to riddle
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chûwd
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2330is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2330
properly, to tie a knot, i.e. (figuratively) to propound a riddle
The King James renders it: put forth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chud is rendered "to riddle". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 14:12“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
Judges 14:12אָחֽוּדָה־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ask a riddle1
- ask riddle1
- let me ask a riddle1
- you have asked riddle1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָחֽוּדָה־1
- חַ֙דְתָּ֙1
- ח֥וּד1
- ח֥וּדָה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular1HVqc1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he1HVqv2ms/Sh
Judges
three uses
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
- אָחֽוּדָה־ʾachudah-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me ask a riddle
But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”
- ח֥וּדָהchudahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: ask riddle
Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
- חַ֙דְתָּ֙chadtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have asked riddle
Ezekiel
one use
“Son of man, pose a riddle; speak a parable to the house of Israel
- ח֥וּדchudverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: ask a riddle
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.