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required

Meaning of “required”

Past-tense or past-participial form of require (to ask, demand, call for, or hold someone accountable for what is due).

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
22 occurrences21 verses14 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 42:22

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Nehemiah 5:18
Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
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1611 witness · Nehemiah 5:18 · retained source text

Now that which was prepared for me daily, was one oxe, and sixe choice sheepe; also foules were prepared for mee, and once in ten dayes, store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the gouernour, because the bondage was heauy vpon this people.

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Demanded; needed; necessary.

volume 2, leaf 465, column 3 (entry starts at OCR line 171)

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