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צְדָקָה H6666

tsᵉdâqâh

tsed-aw-kaw'

from צָדַק; rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity); justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

צְדָקָה 157 n.f. righteousness
1 righteousness, in government
2 God's attribute as sovereign
3 righteousness, in a case or cause
4 righteousness = truthfulness
5 righteousness, as ethically right
6 righteousness as vindicated, justification, salvation, etc.
7 pl. righteous acts

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

150 occurrences

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

  • Ezekiel 14:14
    Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Ezekiel 14:20
    Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
  • Ezekiel 18:5
    But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
  • Ezekiel 18:19
    Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
  • Ezekiel 18:20
    The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
  • Ezekiel 18:21
    But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Ezekiel 18:22
    All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
  • Ezekiel 18:24
    But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
  • Ezekiel 18:26
    When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
  • Ezekiel 18:27
    Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.