Require

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.

re-kwir': "Require" meant originally "seek after," whence "ask," and so (as in modern English) "demand." All meanings are common in the King James Version (e.g. 1Sa 21:8; Ec 3:15; Ezr 8:22; 1Co 4:2), and the Revised Version (British and American) has made little change.