Reptile (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Natural History in vol. iii. p. 492*. REQUIRE Sometimes in AV as in mod. Eng- lish to 'require' is to demand, a.s I S 21' 'The king's business required haste': cf. Mk 5' Tiiul. 'I requyre the in the name of God that thou torment me not.' This is especially the case in the freq. phrase of requiring one, or one's blood, at another's hand ; cf . Bar 6'" Gov. ' Thouf'h a man make a vow unto them [the idols] and kope it not, they will not requyre it.'

liut the sense of denuind does not lie, as now, in the verb itself, but in the context. To require (from Lat. requirere through Old Fr. requerir) is first to seek after, and then to request or entreat. It may be used to translate a verb of demanding, as Driver (Par. Psalter, 480) suggests that in Ps 40" 51« it may perhaps correspond to yiunatev's nostulavi and txigis,' but of all the Ileb. and Gr. words it is used to tr. in AV there is none that means more than seek after or a.ik.

That it means no more than ask or entreat in some places is evident, as Ezr 8" ' I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers' (RV 'ask '). Cf. Tindale, Expos. 151, ' He giveth abundantly unto them that require it [mercy] with a faith/ul heart.' Gov. after rendering 'Gedeon sayde unto them. One thinge I desyre of you, every man geve me the earinge that "he hath spoyled ' (Jg 8*'), adds, ' And the golden earynges which he requyred ' (S"). Cf. Bemers, Frot^snart, ch. ix.

'Tlien the queen was greatly abashed, and required him all weeping of ElBgqod counsel, 'and Chapman, Odijsscys, xx. 215 — ' For she required HIb want«, and will'd him all thiti)^ he desired. Ksox frequently speaks of re(|uiring a tiling humbly, as Hist. 190, 'We required your High- nesse in most humble manner ; so .Oaldcrwood, Hist. 14.

5, ' I protest and most humbly require,' and Ptalma in Metre, Ps 143'— • O hear my praver, I>ord, And unto my nosiro To bow thine ear accord, I humbly thee require' ; • Only once 1» exigm u»cd In Vulg. (On SIS") to express •refiuire at the bond of,* elsewhere qucrrere or reqitirere Marly always. and the end of A Dialog betweene Christ and a Sinner, by William Hunnis — ■ 5m7i«r— ThrouKh this sweet grace thy mercie. Lord, We hmiililie doo require. Christ — By mercie iiiiTie 1 you for;,'ive.

And grant this your desire.' J. Hastings.