Topic
Crumb
3 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Matthew 15:27ISBE
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
- Mark 7:28ISBE
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
- Luke 16:21ISBE
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references
krum (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" (Lu 16:21). "Even the (little) dogs eat of the crumbs" (Mt 15:27; Mr 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).
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.