How many times is the word poverty mentioned in the bible?

Answer 1

In the King James version

the word - poverty - appears 15 times

1. 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.
2. Pro 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
3. Pro 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
4. Pro 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
5. Pro 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
6. Pro 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
7. Pro 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
8. Pro 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
9. Pro 28:19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
10. Pro 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
11. Pro 30:8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
12. Pro 31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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

Answer 2

over 300...some say up to 2,000!