1 Kings 10:1
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
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Questions
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Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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ζήτησις
zḗtēsis · dzay'-tay-sis
5 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a searching (properly, the act), i.e. a dispute or its theme
Strong's KJV usage: :--question.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 25:20Strong's last: Titus 3:9
Open full G2214 profile →ζήτημα
zḗtēma · dzay'-tay-mah
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a search (properly concretely), i.e. (in words) a debate
Strong's KJV usage: :--question.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 23:29Strong's last: Acts 25:19
Open full G2213 profile →דָּבָר
dâbâr · daw-baw'
2 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:3Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 9:2
Open full H1697 profile →חִידָה
chîydâh · khee-daw'
2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a puzzle, hence, a trick, conundrum, sententious maxim
Strong's KJV usage: dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:1Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 9:1
Open full H2420 profile →διό
dió · dee-o'
1 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences
through which thing, i.e. consequently
Strong's KJV usage: :--for which cause, therefore, wherefore.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 26:3Strong's last: Acts 26:3
Open full G1352 profile →ἐπερωτάω
eperōtáō · ep-er-o-tah'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
to ask for, i.e. inquire, seek
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask (after, questions), demand, desire, question.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 2:46Strong's last: Luke 2:46
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H2420
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
H1697
And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
English meaning and historical usage.
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question
QUESTION, noun ques'chun. [Latin quaestio. See Quest.]
1. The act of asking; an interrogatory; as, to examine by question and answer.
2. That which is asked; something proposed which is to be solved by answer. What is the question?
3. Inquiry; disquisition; discussion.
It is to be put to question whether it is lawful for christian princes to make an invasive war, simply for the propagation of the faith.
4. Dispute or subject of debate.
There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, about purifying. John 3:25.
5. Doubt; controversy; dispute. The story is true beyond all question
This does not bring their truth in question
6. Trial; examination; judicial trial or inquiry.
Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question Acts 23:6. Acts 24:21.
7. Examination by torture.
8. Endeavor; effort; act of seeking. [Not in use.]
9. In logic, a proposition stated by way of interrogation.
In question in debate; in the course of examination or discussion; as, the matter or point in question
QUES'TION, verb intransitive
1. To ask a question or questions; to inquire by interrogatory or proposition to be answered.
He that questioneth much, shall learn much.
2. To debate by interrogatories.
QUES'TION, verb transitive
1. To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
2. To doubt of; to be uncertain of.
And most we question what we most desire.
3. To have no confidence in; to treat as doubtful. If a man is frustrated in his designs, his prudence is questions.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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