27 occurrences

'Require' in the Bible

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.

Verse ConceptsGuardiansCapital PunishmentResponsibility For Blood ShedDeath Penalty For KillingRelation Of Animals To ManAnimals Having A SoulThe RainbowPetsaccounting

That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

Verse ConceptsCompensationLossOppression, Nature OfShepherds, As OccupationsAnimals Torn To PiecesDay Or Night

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Verse ConceptsSafetyEternal Evil

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodCommitment, to GodHeart, And Holy SpiritWalkingWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWorship, Elements OfDuty Of Man To GodTrue ReligionWhole HeartednessMan's Conduct Towards GodLove For GodGod's NeedsThe Need To Love GodFear God!relaxation

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Verse ConceptsResponsibility

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersdelay, humanOaths, HumanPromises, HumanProcrastinationMaking Vows

That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;

Verse ConceptsBuilding AltarsIf You Turn From GodRegulating Sacrifices

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.

And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Verse ConceptsBeds

And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And Night

And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

Verse ConceptsGod Multipling People

Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeKindness

And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The King

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

Verse ConceptsForsaking GodGrace, In OtRejection Of God, Results OfRoadsGod's HandConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod's Hands On PeopleShame Has Come

Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

Verse ConceptsPeople Bound By Oaths

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Verse ConceptsAccountabilityrehabilitationNot Seeking God

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.

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of LeadersResponsibility For Blood ShedGod Judges The WickedResponsible To WarnBloodPunishment of the The WickedResponsibilityChanging Yourself

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.

Verse ConceptsApostates, PunishmentOffenceRighteous, TheStumblingAccountabilityResponsibility For Blood ShedWarning IndividualsGod HinderingIf You Turn From GodResponsible To WarnResponsibility

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.

Verse ConceptsSacrifice, Nt Fulfilment OfHow To Worship God

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.

Verse ConceptsBeing A WitnessResponsibility, For God's WorldAccountabilityTrumpets For SignallingWarning IndividualsResponsible To WarnResponsibility

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.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfWarning IndividualsResponsible To WarnThe Wicked Will PerishAccountability

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.

Verse ConceptsChrist And His SheepCessationGod Saves The NeedyTaking Other People

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.

Verse ConceptsVirginMarriage AllowedPassionSame Sex Marriagecouplesactingvirginity

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Command (517 instances)
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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּחר 
Bachar 
Usage: 169

בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

שׁאל 
Sh@'el (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

αἰτέω 
Aiteo 
Usage: 43

αἴτημα 
Aitema 
Usage: 3

ἐκζητέω 
Ekzeteo 
Usage: 5

πράσσω 
Prasso 
do , commit , exact , require , deed , keep , use arts
Usage: 35

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