Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
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In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Read in context →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.
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hystérēma · hoos-ter'-ay-mah
a deficit; specially, poverty
Strong's KJV usage: :--that which is behind, (that which was) lack(-ing), penury, want.
Strong's first: Luke 21:4Strong's last: Luke 21:4
Open full G5303 profile →machçôwr · makh-sore'
deficiency; hence, impoverishment
Strong's KJV usage: lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.
Strong's first: Proverbs 14:23Strong's last: Proverbs 14:23
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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.
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PEN'URY, noun [Latin penuria, from Gr. needy.]
Want of property; indigence; extreme poverty.
All innocent they were exposed to hardship and penury
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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