Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
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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.
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6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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בָּקַשׁ
bâqash · baw-kash'
10 times translated as this KJV form225 total Strong's occurrences
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
Strong's KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 31:39Strong's last: Ezekiel 33:8
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dârash · daw-rash'
10 times translated as this KJV form163 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
Strong's KJV usage: ask, × at all, care for, × diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 9:5Strong's last: Micah 6:8
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shâʼal · shaw-al'
3 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
Strong's KJV usage: ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, × earnestly, enquire, greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, salute, × straitly, × surely, wish.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 10:12Strong's last: Ezra 8:22
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aitéō · ahee-teh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form71 total Strong's occurrences
to ask (in genitive case)
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, require.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 1:22Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 1:22
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gínomai · ghin'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form701 total Strong's occurrences
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: :--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 7:36Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 7:36
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bâchar · baw-khar'
1 times translated as this KJV form171 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
Strong's KJV usage: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 19:38Strong's last: 2 Samuel 19:38
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shᵉʼêl · sheh-ale'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: ask, demand, require.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 7:21Strong's last: Ezra 7:21
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H1245
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
H1245
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
H1875
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.
H1875
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.
H1245
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.
H1875
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.
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require
REQUI'RE, verb transitive [Latin 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 Chronicles 21:3.
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 8:22.
[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]
4. To call to account for.
I will require my flock at their hand. Ezekiel 34:10.
5. To make necessary; to need; to demand.
The king's business required haste. 1 Samuel 21:8.
6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. 1 Samuel 20:16.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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