KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To ask or question authoritatively, requiring an answer. Sense 2: As a noun, an authoritative request or requirement.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 38:3
Complete exact-word concordance
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and answere thou me.
1611 marginal noteHeb. make me know.
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Gird vp thy loynes now like a man: I will demaund of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
1611 marginal noteChap. 38.3.
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demand of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demaund by the word of the Holy ones: to the intent that the liuing may know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whomsoeuer hee will, and setteth vp ouer it the basest of men.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To ask.
To ask by authority; to require; to seek or claim an answer. As a noun, an asking or claim made with authority.
