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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 
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1 Chronicles 21:3 - Require

1 Chronicles 21:3 - 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 Strongs No. Hebrew
And Joab H3097 יוֹאָב
answered H559 אָמַר
The LORD H3068 יְהֹוָה
make his people H5971 עַם
an hundred H3967 מֵאָה
times H6471 פַּעַם
so many more H3254 יָסַף
as they H1992 הֵם
be H1961 הָיָה
but my lord H3068 יְהֹוָה
the king H4428 מֶלֶךְ
are they H1992 הֵם
not H3808 לֹא
all H3605 כֹּל
my lord's servants H5650 עֶבֶד
why H4100 מָה
then doth my lord H3068 יְהֹוָה
require H1245 בָּקַשׁ
this thing H2063 זֹאת
why H4100 מָה
will he be H1961 הָיָה
a cause of trespass H819 אַשְׁמָה
to Israel H3478 יִשְׂרָאֵל

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.