HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6078
עׇפְנִי
oph.ni — Ophni
§ Ophni = "mouldy" a town of Benjamin located 2.5 (4.5 km) miles northwest of Bethel; modern 'Jifna'
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Mouldy
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G7565
εὐρωτιάω
eurōtiaō — be moldy
to be or become mouldy , βίος εὐρωτιῶν the life of the unwashed , (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
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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.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.