Mouldy
Mouldy
The word nikkudim’ (Jos 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.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Mouldy
Of the Gibeonites it is said that “all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy” (Josh. 9:5, 12). The Hebrew word here rendered “mouldy” (nikuddim) is rendered “cracknels” in 1 Kings 14:3, and denotes a kind of crisp cake. The meaning is that the bread of the Gibeonites had become dry and hard, hard as biscuits, and thus was an evidence of the length of the journey they had travelled.