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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Poverty

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

15exact KJV occurrences 12Old Testament 3New Testament 4books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 14occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 45:11

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 2:9

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where poverty appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 11 verses Proverbs 1111 verses 2 Corinthians 22 verses Revelation 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG4432
πτωχεία

ptōcheía · pto-khi'-ah

3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

beggary, i.e. indigence (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: :--poverty.

Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 8:2Strong's last: Revelation 2:9

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HebrewH3423
יָרַשׁ

yârash · yaw-rash'

3 times translated as this KJV form232 total Strong's occurrences

v

to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

Strong's KJV usage: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, × without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, × utterly.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 45:11Strong's last: Proverbs 23:21

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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11 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Clear
Proverbs 6:11
H7389

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Proverbs 10:15
H7389

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 11:24
H4270

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

Proverbs 13:18
H7389

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Proverbs 20:13
H3423

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 23:21
H3423

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 24:34
H7389

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

Proverbs 28:19
no direct Strong's tag

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Proverbs 28:22
H2639

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Proverbs 30:8
H7389

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Proverbs 31:7
H7389

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

poverty

POV'ERTY, noun [Latin paupertas. See Poor.]

1. Destitution of property; indigence; want of convenient means of subsistence. The consequence of poverty is dependence.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty Proverbs 23:21.

2. Barrenness of sentiment or ornament; defect; as the poverty of a composition.

3. Want; defect of words; as the poverty of language.

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.