Demand
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To make a demand; to inquire.
(2): ( v. t.) A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.
(3): ( v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
(4): ( v. t.) To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.
(5): ( v. t.) To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
(6): ( v. t.) To call into court; to summon.
(7): ( v. t.) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.
(8): ( v. t.) The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.
(9): ( v. t.) Earnest inquiry; question; query.
(10): ( v. t.) That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
(11): ( v. t.) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.
(12): ( v. t.) A thing or amount claimed to be due.
King James Dictionary [2]
Demand, L To command to send hence, to commit or entrust. To ask is to press or urge.
1. To ask or call for, as one who has a claim or right to receive what is sought to claim or seek as due by right. The creditor demands principal and interest of his debt. Here the claim is derived from law or justice. 2. To ask by authority to require to seek or claim an answer by virtue of a right or supposed right in the interrogator, derived from his office, station, power or authority.
The officers of the children of Israel-were beaten, and demanded, wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick. Ex. 5.
3. To require as necessary or useful as, the execution of this work demands great industry and care. 4. To ask to question to inquire.
The soldiers also demanded of him, saying, what shall we do? Luke 3 .
5. To ask or require, as a seller of goods as, what price do you demand? 6. To sue for to seek to obtain by legal process as, the plaintiff, in his action, demands unreasonable damages.
In French, demander generally signifies simply to ask, request, or petition, when the answer or thing asked for, is a matter of grace or courtesy. But in English, demand is now seldom used in that sense, and rarely indeed can the French demander be rendered correctly in English by demand, except in the case of the seller of goods, who demands, asks, requires, a certain price for his wares. The common expression, a king sent to demand another kings daughter in marriage, is improper.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
Matthew 2:4 Acts 21:33 Luke 3:14 17:20Ask.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
dē̇ - mand ´: The peremptory, imperative sense is absent from this word in its occurrences in the King James Version, where it means no more than "ask," "inquire" (compare French, demander ) one or the other of which the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes in 2 Samuel 11:7; Matthew 2:4; Luke 3:14; Luke 17:20; Acts 21:33 . the Revised Version (British and American) retains "demand" in Exodus 5:14; Job 38:3; Job 40:7; Job 42:4; Daniel 2:27; and inserts it (the King James Version "require") in Nehemiah 5:18 .
