Definition

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

Etymology

from G4433 (πτωχεύω);

Word family

• πτωχεύω ptōcheúō

How the KJV renders it

• poverty

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.