Crumb
נִקּוּדStrong’s H5350niqqud (niq-qud)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Niqqud is the Hebrew word usually translated “crumbs” and “cakes”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.”
Meaning
- Crumbled thing, thing easily crumbled, crumbscrumbs · apparently a kind of hard biscuit or cake
How it's translated
- crumbs 2
- and cakes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- 1 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 9:12This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
- 1 Kings 14:3And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
Hebrew dictionary
נִקּוּד niqqud · crumb
1) crumbled thing, thing easily crumbled, crumbs 1a) crumbs 1b) apparently a kind of hard biscuit or cake
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAKE, noun
- A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass.
- Something in the form of a cake rather flat than high, but roundish; as a cake on a tree.
- A mass of matter concreted; as a cake of ice.
- A hard swelling on the flesh; or rather a concretion without such swelling.
All definitions and other forms of “cake”
CAKE, verb transitive
To form into a cake or mass.
CAKE, verb intransitive
To concrete, or form into a had mass, as dough in an oven, or as flesh or any other substance.
CAKE, verb intransitive
To cackle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.