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Mouldy

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

The word נקֻּדַים nikkudim' (Joshua 9:5), refers, as Gesenius remarks, rather to crumbs of bread, and, instead of, as in our version, "all the bread of their [the Gibeonites'] provision was dry and mouldy," he reads, "all the bread of their travelling provision was dry, and had fallen into crumbs." (See BREAD).