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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Require:

re-kwir':"Require" meant originally "seek after," whence "ask," and so (as in modern English) "demand." All meanings are common in the King James Version (e.g. 1Sa 21:8; Ec 3:15; Ezr 8:22; 1Co 4:2), and the Revised Version (British and American) has made little change.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Require:

"to seek, seek after," also signifies "to require, demand," "shall be required," Luk 12:48; in 1Cr 4:2, "it is required (in stewards)."
See DESIRE, Note (2), ENDEAVOR, GO, Note (2) (a), SEEK.

Require:

"to seek out" (ek, "out," and No. 1), also denotes "to demand, require," Luk 11:50, 51, of executing vengeance for the slaughter of the prophets (cp. 2Sa 4:11; Eze 3:18).
See SEEK.

Require:

"to ask back, demand back" (apo, "from," or "back," aiteo, "to ask"), is translated "shall be required" in Luk 12:20, lit. "do they require," in the impersonal sense; elsewhere, Luk 6:30, "to ask again." It is used in the papyri frequently in the sense of "demanding, making demands."

Require:

"to do, practice, perform," is used financially in the sense of "exacting" payment, in Luk 19:23.
See EXTORT, A.

Notes:

(1) In Luk 23:23, AV, aiteo, "to ask" (Middle Voice) is translated "requiring" (RV, "asking'); so in 1Cr 1:22 (Active Voice, AV, "require" (RV, "ask").

(2) In Luk 23:24, AV, the noun aitema (see REQUEST), "that which is asked for," is translated "as they required" (RV, "what they asked for").

(3) In 1Cr 7:36 the rendering "need so requireth" (RV) represents the phrase houtos ("thus") opheilei ("it ought") genesthai ("to become," i.e., "to be done").