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require

Meaning of “require”

To ask, demand, call for, or hold someone accountable for what is due.

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KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
29 occurrences27 verses14 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 9:5

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Ezekiel 20:40
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 20:40 · retained source text

For in mine holy mountaine, in the mountaine of the height of Israel, saith the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land serue me: there will I accept them, and there wil I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

1611 marginal noteOr, chiefe.

Ezekiel 33:6
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 33:6 · retained source text

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned: if the sword come and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquitie: but his blood will I require at the watchmans hand.

Ezekiel 33:8
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 33:8 · retained source text

When I say vnto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, if thou doest not speake to warne the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquitie: but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezekiel 34:10
Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 34:10 · retained source text

Thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I am against the shepheards, and I will require my flocke at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flocke, neither shall the shepheards feede themselues any more: for I will deliuer my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Micah 6:8 · retained source text

Hee hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doeth the LORD require of thee, but to do iustly, and to loue mercy, and to walke humbly with thy God?

1611 marginal noteHeb. humble thyselfe to walke.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 10.12.

1 Corinthians 1:22
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 1:22 · retained source text

For the Iewes require a signe, and the Greekes seeke after wisedome.

1611 marginal noteMatt. 12.38.

1 Corinthians 7:36
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 7:36 · retained source text

But if any man thinke that he behaueth himselfe vncomely toward his virgin, if she passe the floure of her age, and neede so require, let him doe what hee will, hee sinneth not: let them marry.

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