chud · propound a riddle

What it means

chud (חוּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “propound a riddle”.

Put a riddle to others for them to solve. The word comes from "tie a knot."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pose a riddle for others to solve.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Propose ×2
• propound ×1
• you have proposed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Judges 14:12

  And Samson said to them, “Let me propose to you, please, a riddle. If you do explain it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.

• Judges 14:13

  But if you cannot explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Propose your riddle, and let us hear it.”

• Judges 14:16

  So the wife of Samson wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. The riddle you have proposed to the sons of my people, but to me you have not explained it.” And he said to her, “Look, to my father and to my mother I have not explained it, and to you should I explain it?”

• Ezekiel 17:2

  “Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a proverb to the house of Israel,