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# penury

«penury» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Great poverty, having almost no money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Great poverty, having almost no money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/penury/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Proverbs teaches that real work brings profit while empty talk brings want, and the tradition values honest labour.

### examples

- In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. (Writings PRO.14.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/penury/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.398/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «penury» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/penury/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.