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|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|Ezra 8:22]].
[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]
I will require my flock at their hand. [[Ezekiel 34#10|Ezekiel 34:10]].
5. To make necessary; to need; to demand.
The king's business required haste. [[1 Samuel 21#8|1 Samuel 21:8]].
6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. [[1 Samuel 20#16|1 Samuel 20:16]].