Bible dictionaries
Penury
What Bible dictionaries say about “Penury”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Penury - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PEN'URY, n. [L. penuria, from Gr. needy.]
Want of property; indigence; extreme poverty.
All innocent they were exposed to hardship and penury.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
pen'-u-ri (machcor): In Pr 14:23, with sense of "poverty," "want": "The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." In the New Testament the word in Lu 21:4 (husterema) is in the Revised Version (British and American) translated "want" (of the widow's mites).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915