Definition

a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim

Etymology

from H2330 (חוּד);

Where the KJV renders it

• dark saying (sentence
• speech)
• hard question
• proverb
• riddle

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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