niq.qud denotes food reduced to small dry pieces in the provisions described in Joshua.

The attested use describes provisions that have become small, dry pieces: both Joshua passages place the plural noun in the claim that food once hot had withered, while 1 Kings 14:3 places the same form among bread, cakes, and honey brought in hand.

1. Dried pieces of food or provisions · dominant

   In Joshua 9:5 and Joshua 9:12, the masculine plural absolute form occurs in the description of provisions that had withered; in Joshua 9:12 the APB renders the result as "has become crumbs." In 1 Kings 14:3, the same plural form occurs in a list of food carried in hand, and the APB renders the clause "Take ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey in your hand."

   Joshua 9:5Joshua 9:121 Kings 14:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "crumbs" in Joshua 9:5 and Joshua 9:12, where the food is said to have withered. In 1 Kings 14:3, its specific contribution is not isolable from the translation’s broader list of bread, cakes, and honey.