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צֶדֶק H6664

tsedeq

tseh'-dek

from צָדַק; the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity; [idiom] even, ([idiom] that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

צֶ֫דֶק n.m. rightness, righteousness
1 what is right, just, normal; rightness, justness, of weights and measures
2 righteousness, in government
3 righteousness, justice, in a case or cause
4 rightness, in speech
5 righteousness, as ethically right
6 righteousness, as vindicated, justification in controversy with enemies and troubles, deliverance, victory, prosperity

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

109 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Proverbs 31:9
    Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:16
    And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
  • Ecclesiastes 5:8
    If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:15
    All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
  • Isaiah 1:21
    How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Isaiah 1:26
    And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
  • Isaiah 11:4
    But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
  • Isaiah 11:5
    And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
  • Isaiah 16:5
    And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
  • Isaiah 26:9
    With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.