noun, verb, -dled, -dling.| 1. | a question or statement so framed as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum. |
| 2. | a puzzling question, problem, or matter. |
| 3. | a puzzling thing or person. |
| 4. | any enigmatic or dark saying or speech. |
| 5. | to propound riddles; speak enigmatically. |
verb, -dled, -dling, noun | 1. | to pierce with many holes, suggesting those of a sieve: to riddle the target. |
| 2. | to fill or affect with (something undesirable, weakening, etc.): a government riddled with graft. |
| 3. | to impair or refute completely by persistent verbal attacks: to riddle a person's reputation. |
| 4. | to sift through a riddle, as gravel; screen. |
| 5. | a coarse sieve, as one for sifting sand in a foundry. |

Riddle
(Heb. hodah). The oldest and, strictly speaking, the only example of a riddle was that propounded by Samson (Judg. 14:12-18). The parabolic prophecy in Ezek. 17:2-18 is there called a "riddle." It was rather, however, an allegory. The word "darkly" in 1 Cor. 13:12 is the rendering of the Greek enigma; marg., "in a riddle."