Crumb - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CRUMB

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" (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).

Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'CRUMB'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.