Penury
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.
(2): ( n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
King James Dictionary [2]
PEN'URY, n. L. penuria, from Gr. needy.
Want of property indigence extreme poverty.
All innocent they were exposed to hardship and penury.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
Luke 21:4
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
pen´ū́ - ri ( מחסור , maḥṣōr ): 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 ( ὑστέρημα , hustérēma ) is in the Revised Version (British and American) translated "want" (of the widow's mites).
