Requite
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Requite - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
REQUI'TE, v.t. [from quit, L. cedo.]
1. To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward.
I also will requite you this kindness. 2 Sam 2. 1 Tim 5.
In a bad sense, to retaliate; to return evil for evil; to punish.
Joseph will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him. Gen 1.
2. To do or give in return.
He hath requited me evil for good. 1 Sam 25.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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