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# requite

verb (requites, requited, requiting); old use

«requite» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition and Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To requite someone is to pay them back for good or bad that they have done to you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/#m1)

### In the lessons

in fairy tales, a hero repays a kindness or a wrong

### Examples

- I will requite your kindness one day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/#x1)
- The king requited the boy with gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it usually means paying back evil, as when Joseph's brothers fear he will take revenge.

**Interpretation.** Jewish tradition reads Joseph's forgiveness as a model of not taking revenge, and Moses' question shows God's goodness is not to be repaid with ingratitude.

### Examples

- Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not He thy father that hath gotten thee? hath He not made thee, and established thee? (Torah DEU.32.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/requite/#x1)
- And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.' (Torah GEN.50.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/requite/#x2)
- If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness; (Writings PSA.7.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/requite/#x3)
- He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor requited us according to our iniquities. (Writings PSA.103.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/requite/#x4)
- Say not thou: 'I will requite evil'; wait for the LORD, and He will save thee. (Writings PRO.20.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/requite/#x5)

### Note

nothing for maths

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

To pay someone back, whether for good or for bad things they have done. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say repay. The sentences use the same sense as the dictionary, but the word itself is old.

### Examples

- Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not He thy father that hath gotten thee? hath He not made thee, and established thee? (Torah DEU.32.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#x1)
- And now we have requited thee thy service, Ivan Golik, farewell!" (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#x2)
- And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.' (Torah GEN.50.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#x3)

### Note

Today: repay.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «requite» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«requite» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/requite.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «requite» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/requite/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«requite» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/requite.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «requite» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«requite» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/requite.html) on Mova free.