Require
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Require - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
REQUI'RE, v.t. [L. requiro; re and quaero, to seek. See Query.]
1. To demand; to ask, as of right and by authority. We require a person to do a thing, and we require a thing to be done.
Why then doth my lord require this thing? 1 Chr 21.
2. To claim; to render necessary; as a duty or any thing indispensable; as, the law of God requires strict obedience.
3. To ask as a favor; to request.
I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. Ezra 8.
[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]
4. To call to account for.
I will require my flock at their hand. Ezek 34.
5. To make necessary; to need; to demand.
The king's business required haste. 1 Sam 21.
6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. 1 Sam 20.
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