10 occurrences

'Riddle' in the Bible

And Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. If you can fully explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it out], I will give to you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.

Verse ConceptsClothSevenThirtySeven DaysPeople Giving ClothesPartying

But if you are unable to explain it to me, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." So they said to him, "Tell your riddle; let us hear it."

Verse ConceptsThirty

He said to them, "From the eater came out food, From [the] strong came out sweet." But they were unable to explain the riddle for three days.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of AnimalsAnimals Eating PeopleSweetness

When it was the fourth day, they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?"

Verse ConceptsEnticementThe Fourth Day Of The WeekBurning PeopleEnticingBecoming PoorDay 4

And Samson's wife wept before him, and she said, "You must hate me; you do not love me. You told the riddle to {my people}, but you have not explained [it] to me." He said to her, "I have not explained [it] to my father and mother. [Why] should I explain it to you?"

Verse ConceptsCryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

She wept before him the seven days of their feast; and it happened, because she nagged him, on the seventh day he explained [it] to her, and she told the riddle to {her people}.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysGiving InformationDay 7People Mourning Catastrophenagging

The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went [down], "What [is] sweeter than honey? What [is] stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle."

Verse ConceptsPloughingHeifersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekStrength Of AnimalsMetaphorical PloughingSweetnessDay 7

And the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men from them, and he took their belongings, and he gave festal garments to the ones that explained the riddle. {He was angry}, and he went up to his father's house.

Verse ConceptsThirtyPeople Giving ClothesAngry PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners KilledGifts Of Supernatural Strengthcrusades

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound} my riddle on a lyre.

Verse ConceptsProblem SolvingHarpsAccompanimentWise Proverbs

"Son of man, tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel,

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חידה 
Chiydah 
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