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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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Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 40:6 · retained source text

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, mine eares hast thou opened: burnt offering and sinne-offering hast thou not required.

1611 marginal noteHeb. digged.

1611 marginal notePsal.51.16. Esa.1.11. & 66.3. Hos.6.6 Heb. 10.5. Mat.12.7

Psalms 137:3
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 137:3 · retained source text

For there they that carried vs away captiue, required of vs a song, and they that wasted vs, required of vs mirth: saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the words of a song.

1611 marginal noteHeb. layd vs on heapes.

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Demanded; needed; necessary.

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

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