penury
5 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
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.
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
To the end that they, desiring food, might for the ugly sight of the beasts sent among them lothe even that, which they must needs desire; but these, suffering penury for a short space, might be made partakers of a strange taste.
For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented.
1 Enoch
While with disgrace, with slaughter, and in extreme penury, shall their spirits be thrust into a furnace of fire.