pen´uÌ„Ì-ri (מחסור, mahÌ£sÌ£oÌ„r): In , with sense of “poverty,†“wantâ€: “The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.†In the New Testament the word in (ὑστεÌÏημα, husteÌreÌ„ma) is in the Revised Version (British and American) translated “want†(of the widow's mites).