International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
CRUMBkrum (psichion, "a little bit"): Occurs only in the New Testament, of remnants of food, scraps. Lazarus desired "to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table" (Luke 16:21). "Even the (little) dogs eat of the crumbs" (Matthew 15:27 Mark 7:28), "possibly the fragments of bread on which the guests wiped their hands (after thrusting them into the common dish), and flung to the dogs" (Farrar, Life of Christ, I, 476).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
2. (n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.
3. (n.) The soft part of bread.
4. (v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.
Strong's Hebrew
5350. niqqud -- perhaps what is crumbled or easily crumbles ...... Crumb, Biscuit. From the same as naqod; a
crumb (as broken to spots); also a biscuit
(as pricked) -- cracknel, mouldy. see HEBREW naqod. << 5349, 5350.
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