Kunarion refers to dogs in a household-table comparison, receiving crumbs rather than the children's bread.

The term denotes the dogs placed within a comparison between children receiving bread and dogs receiving what is thrown or falls as crumbs; the same use appears in both the bread-and-throwing clauses and the crumbs-and-eating replies.

1. Dogs in the bread-and-crumbs comparison · dominant

   In Mark 7:27 and Matthew 15:26, the dative plural form occurs in the clause about taking the children's bread and throwing it to the dogs; the APB renders the former clause, "throw it to the little dogs." In Mark 7:28 and Matthew 15:27, the nominative plural form names those under the table or receiving fallen crumbs; the APB renders the response with dogs eating "the children's crumbs" or "the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

   Mark 7:27Mark 7:28Matthew 15:26Matthew 15:27

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "little dogs" in Mark 7:27 and as "dogs" in the other supplied verses. This variation does not establish separate uses.