I will open my mouth in a parable; I will tell riddles of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Psalm 78:2-3 NASB Parable/ riddle – māšāl and ḥîdâ (parable and riddle). How are these two terms connected? First, we need to know what the Hebrew idea of “parable” really is. “A….
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle on the harp. Psalm 49:4 NASB Riddle – Samson was tested. Solomon was asked. David made mention. But it never confronted Moses. What is it? A riddle (ḥîdâ), of course. “The ḥîdâ is an enigmatic saying, question, or story whose meaning must be determined…
Then Samson said to them, “Let me now propound a riddle to you; if you will indeed tell it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen wraps and thirty changes of clothes.” Judges 14:12 NASB Riddle – Not everything in the Scripture…
