Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. 2. (n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort. 3. (n.) The soft part of bread. 4. (v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. Int. 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).