Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Absence of resources; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. 2. (n.) Penuriousness; miserliness. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PENURY pen'-u-ri (machcor): In Proverbs 14:23, with sense of "poverty," "want": "The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." In the New Testament the word in Luke 21:4 (husterema) is in the Revised Version (British and American) translated "want" (of the widow's mites). PLAIN OF THE VINEYARDS See ABEL-CHERAMIM. PLAIN, CITIES OF THE See CITIES OF THE PLAIN. SEA OF THE PLAIN (ARABAH) ar'-a-ba). See DEAD SEA.

Multi-Version Concordance Penury (4 Occurrences) Luke 21:4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. (KJV WBS) Proverbs 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man. (DBY) Proverbs 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. (KJV JPS ASV WBS) Proverbs 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man. (DBY)