נִקֻּד
niqqud · H5350 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Thing
- BreadFood and Drink376 verses
Meanings
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cake, wafer, pastry
A type of cake or pastry
Examples1 Kings 14:3 “Take ten loaves with you, some pastries, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
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crumbly
Meaning unsure; possibly: state in which bread or similar food has become so dry that it is falling apart
ExamplesJoshua 9:5 and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes on themselves; and all the bread of their provision was dry and had become crumbled.
Joshua 9:12 “This bread of ours was hot when we took it for our provisions from our houses on the day that we left to come to you; but now behold, it is dry and has become crumbled.
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moldy
Meaning unsure; possibly: state in which food is cover with spots of mold
ExamplesJoshua 9:5 and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes on themselves; and all the bread of their provision was dry and had become crumbled.
Joshua 9:12 “This bread of ours was hot when we took it for our provisions from our houses on the day that we left to come to you; but now behold, it is dry and has become crumbled.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Bread001003001003001
- The word describes bread that has become dry, crumbly, or moldy, as the Gibeonites display their dry, crumbled provisions as false evidence of a long journey (Joshua 9:5, 9:12), tying the word to this state of stale baked bread.
- Impact002001001024
- The word's sense of bread crumbling ties it to a breaking-apart process, a broader sense of fragmentation than the bread-specific citations sampled here.
- Color002001001014
- The word's moldy sense ties it to a visible discoloration of the bread's surface, a broader appearance-related sense than the plain crumbliness citations sampled here.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5350. niqqud [נִקּוּד] noun [masculine] perhaps what is crumbled or easily crumbles,…
[נִקּוּד] noun [masculine] perhaps what is crumbled or easily crumbles, crumb (compare נְקֻדָּה); — only plural
1 crumbs: נִקֻּדִים הָיָה יָבֵ֖שׁ צֵידָם לֶחֶם כֹּל Jos 9:5 all the bread of their provision was dry (and) become crumbs (ᵐ5 βεβρωμένος [οι]; ᵑ7 in frusta comminuti), compare נ וְהָיָה ׳יָבֵשׁ Jos 9:12 (see Di Benn).
2 apparently a kind of (hard) biscuit or cake 1Ki 14:3 (brought as present; + לֶחֶם, etc.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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