In the King James version
the Word - poverty - appears 15 times
- Gen 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.
- Pro 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
- Pro 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- Pro 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
- Pro 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
- Pro 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
- Pro 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- Pro 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
- Pro 28:19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
- Pro 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
- Pro 30:8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- Pro 31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
- 2 Cor 8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
- 2 Cor 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
- Rev 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.
and
- the Word - poor - appears 205 times
- the Word - poorer - appears once
- the Word - poorest - appears once
- the Word - impoverish - appears once
- the Word - impoverished - appears 3 times